Some mathematics....

[NHJ BV]

eh...no.

ever heard of slave labour ;D

[Emperor Harkonnen]

nah I guess not, not the soldiers either. they did loose many to the fremen.

[Anathema]

i think those costs should be nearly neglictable (i dunno how to write it) compared to the profit they should make.

Well if the profits are that high then a house would only have to mine spice a little while to secure enough funds for a long time, and I think it's mentioned somewhere that the Richesse got into serious financial trouble after losing the stewardship of Arrakis.

[TMA_1]

heh, they might as well be slaves. The Baron and piter talk in Dune about lowering the cost rate for supplies, payments, and whatnot.

Lowered it to the bare minimum, just for profits. Something like 5 percent went to all of that!

The atreides werent much better at the beginning, but they were working with sabotaged equipment, and the equipment that did work was overused and never repaired by the cheap harkonnens who cared nothing for their workers.