Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37879183-20200209215011

The elves keep gnomes as workers but don't even pay them. They have sufficient amounts of sleep and food to sustain themselves, but do not appear to have designated vacation times. They seem to be subjected to highly dangerous work and work that the elves consider punishment when they themselves do it. We do no yet have any known examples of gnomes being unhappy with their work and they chose to return to work for the elves, but do they actually enjoy their work? If they do, does that make it moral? What if they're only working for the elves because the elves give them a place to stay? What if they've grown dependent on the elves? Should the elves set up settlements for them to happily live for gnomes who choose to not serve the elves? Remember SPEW in Harry Potter, the house elves were perfectly happy working for the wizards but it was still consider wrong. 