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A lot of times, slavery in isekai is handled badly. But it's not that often that you literally get "Rent seeker - the manga". The main plot revolves around how cool Sawadi is for buying cheap slaves, healing them, and then sending them off to work as adventurers while he sits at home and takes a cut of their profits. There's some sub plots but they're utterly abysmal, and the main plot feels like a crime against morality. This is wish fulfillment garbage with the stereotypical blank slate main character, but everything he does is so abhorrent and shameless that he comes off as sociopathic.

10/10 - this manga is amazing at tying together a variety of cool concepts into one cohesive whole. It starts off weird, and keeps getting weirder - every time the characters learn something new about the world and themselves, new mysteries pop up. The characters each have so much personality that each and every one of them could have a story written about themselves, yet it doesn't feel hard to keep track of all of them. The plot twists in the middle are exciting and add even more to the cool factor of the world. The sense of awe inspiring scale that's developed over time ... by shattering previous notions of what counts as "large" is by far the best part of the manga. The only real complaint I have is that the art isn't amazing at the beginning - but the hook is so strong that it's compelling even still, and the rest of the manga has better art to make it easier to read.

Incredible manga, highly recommend it to anyone who loves worldbuilding in things like Made in Abyss, Her Summon, or the works of Dowman Sayman, or sci-fi in general. There's really nothing quite like this one.