Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26273984-20150403165446/@comment-50.187.186.150-20150419232446

It occurs to me that Weiss's dad might not be a Shnee by birth. He might have married into the family and adopted the Shnee name for the prestige. Grampa Shnee might have let him marry into the family because he thought the company needed a more aggressive CEO than Weiss's mom may have been. According to Blake, there was a change in the WF leadership five years previously that led to the WF becoming more violent. Maybe that was triggered by a change for the worse in the management at the SDC. Oh say Weisss's grandpa retiring/dying and daddy taking over. If a lot of faunus work for SDC (maybe Weiss's grandpa was one of the few employers who would even hire faunus at all) and suddenly wages & benefits got cut, hours were increased and safety conditions got worse, that would lead to a lot of resentment. Especially if the faunus didn't have a lot of other employment options. If the SDC is trying to monopolize the dust market, the easiest way to do it is to undercut the competition on price. That means cutting operating costs and increasing production. Think Standard Oil circa 1900.