Because of vast assets the land policies were not working.
Whenever a business lays off workers, the former make more money.
Let's say you run a tea production company and your production costs, which includes paying your workers, are higher than your earnings. As a consequence, you can not afford paying your employees and, inevitably, you have to fire them so that you have more money to keep running your company.
Assimilated
Assimilation is the process of taking in new information and make incorporate the new information into our existing knowledge. This process was described by Jean Piaget in his theory of cognitive development in children. Jesse is doing this by fitting the new information into his existing schema.