So how does this work exactly?

If you'd like to be a pirate, you need understand it is a business.

You can't have a crew or a ship or a brand without a business model to support them.

But pirate business is like any other.

Make a product or provide a service to your customers in exchange for money,

then spend that money on equipment and personnel to make more product for more customers for more money.

The difference with Piracy Incorporated is our customers don't wish to be serviced.

No matter. With the correct spending on equipment and personnel, the business will service them

regardless. Do you have to? My boy, if we don't service our customers, someone else will, and the reward for our

abstemiousness will be poverty.

In our societal and technological environment and economic niche exists, and this incorporation

of pirates fills its shape as whiskey fills a barrel.

Such as life, the motions we choose choose but the sum of forces upon us. I became a pirate as the gold in this grail chose its form. The both of us now cogs of this machine that profits on the high seas or parishes. Okay. Profit is income minus expenses, and for a pirate company, income means seizing the biggest

booty. Seizing the biggest treasure, while provoking the least cost-inducing resistance. The captain is

more than happy to explain how we accomplish that through branding. Branding built on the foundation

of a solid business,

mind you. Brands are memorable and battles flashy, but they don't happen without contracts and

spreadsheets. Thus, before we set sail, there will be a contract for the voyage. Though we choose not

to live under the empire's law, we still have rules of our own, to which all men have input,

and to which all men must agree before setting sale.

The contract sets the voting methods, codes of conduct, punishments for violating those codes, distribution of pay, workman's compensation, etc.

Each pirate enterprise is a bit different, but in general it works thusly.

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