[IAmEveryone]

You could try adding an elaborate backstory and run it as a cult.

Traditionally, violence was also useful to get people to work for free. If you’re really good, the first round of violence makes the mere threat of it effective for subsequent rounds / business projects.

Maybe say you’re hiring and make the work an “example project”. If it’s too much for a single applicant (more than a week), have a “operations management” applicant divide it into suitable sub-packages.

Child labor is illegal almost everywhere, so the only way they can be made to work is without pay.

Interns are great not just in the Oval Office.