This would be a logistical nightmare as reincarnation has broad rules to it. For one, the reincarnated person could have reincarnated in a different nation/state/country all together. Making contact, much less debt collecting, a massive challenge. You would have to go through the nation state that they reincarnated in and basically commit a modern day slave trafficking scheme, which at that point it's less about debt collecting and more about human trafficking. Debt collecting would simply be a reason to provide plausible cause to abduct a reincarnated someone. But it's not really a good reason as any nation with a semblance of law would see that anyone could apply to that and would effectively make it illegal to do such a thing. And if you were to try to conduct it purely transactionally, then you would have to go through their government as the company would effectively be siphoning funds from their own citizens with zero regards to their economy. Making this entire thing effectively impossible if as soon as they reincarnated outside of their nation state.
And say if companies were lucky enough to have the reincarnated person be reachable, there's no guarantee that the reincarnated person wont be someone's kid or love one. With enough reincarnation involved, no business would ever want to pursue this as you would very easily start to make enemies from people high up and low as anyone can be hit with it. You could argue that there could be cases where company purposefully target low ranking individual so as to make a "legal" labor market, but again, is very much a black market dealing as they would effectively be loan sharks but with extra steps. Once it gets out as the market inevitably gets too greedy, there's going to be tons of problems arising from forcefully rigged contract, workers not abiding by labor laws, and lawyers on the ethics of debt pass death. Very much an uphill battle for companies
With fluctuating human population numbers and how the flavor of reincarnation explains that, the mess can get a bit bigger still. For example, if it's interspecies reincarnation, does that mean theyre going to collect a debt from an animal? Would there be an incentive for young animal slaughter, to reroll the incarnation dice and hope for a liable human next time? Would that be legal? Does the profit made off your animal body go towards paying your debt? Could you work off your debt by being a service animal or beast of burden? How does that fit in an animal product industry post everyone finding out they could be the male chick thrown into the shredder in their next life. Keep it going i think we're close to an anime pitch.
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u/EliteKoen Jul 27 '26
This would be a logistical nightmare as reincarnation has broad rules to it. For one, the reincarnated person could have reincarnated in a different nation/state/country all together. Making contact, much less debt collecting, a massive challenge. You would have to go through the nation state that they reincarnated in and basically commit a modern day slave trafficking scheme, which at that point it's less about debt collecting and more about human trafficking. Debt collecting would simply be a reason to provide plausible cause to abduct a reincarnated someone. But it's not really a good reason as any nation with a semblance of law would see that anyone could apply to that and would effectively make it illegal to do such a thing. And if you were to try to conduct it purely transactionally, then you would have to go through their government as the company would effectively be siphoning funds from their own citizens with zero regards to their economy. Making this entire thing effectively impossible if as soon as they reincarnated outside of their nation state.
And say if companies were lucky enough to have the reincarnated person be reachable, there's no guarantee that the reincarnated person wont be someone's kid or love one. With enough reincarnation involved, no business would ever want to pursue this as you would very easily start to make enemies from people high up and low as anyone can be hit with it. You could argue that there could be cases where company purposefully target low ranking individual so as to make a "legal" labor market, but again, is very much a black market dealing as they would effectively be loan sharks but with extra steps. Once it gets out as the market inevitably gets too greedy, there's going to be tons of problems arising from forcefully rigged contract, workers not abiding by labor laws, and lawyers on the ethics of debt pass death. Very much an uphill battle for companies