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5E economics -The Peasants are revolting!
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<blockquote data-quote="rmcoen" data-source="post: 9240692" data-attributes="member: 6692404"><p>Also keep in mind that it costs more to eat healthy. Look at the different in price between junk food (or the college-standbys of Mac'n'cheese and Ramen noodles), and fresh fruit, meat, etc. [Just forget post-COVID nonsense pricing for a minute.] You can get a big bag of chips for $3 (local brand, maybe not Ruffles), and have a "meal" or even two. Or get two bananas. Or the difference between a cap of soup for 60 cents, and a steak (which still needs to be cooked) for $10. One "reason" peasants stay peasants is because of the quality and quantity of food they can afford. Food = energy.</p><p></p><p>But yes, as others have pointed out, there are usually multiple workers in a "home" that adventurers would be unwilling to live in. Maybe Worker #1 pays his entire 2sp/day to maintain the house and required living supplies (cloth, furniture, a new ladle), but Worker #2 is spending his on the meat and veggies going in the 6-person stew and porridge meals. And Worker #3 is bringing in enough that they can all have a couple pints at the tavern on Friday. While Worker #4 saves her pennies so she and Worker #5 can pay for reading lessons or an apprenticeship to maybe step up to the next "level"...</p><p></p><p>To avoid playing "Bankers and Bookkeepers" (as a page-1 person mentioned), though, I assume that the "background" people actually have a lifestyle that is double what the PHB rate is. Or said another way, their "lifestyle expense" is only half what an adventurer's perspective on the same lifestyle would be. The workers in my example above - and most of this thread - only need <em>1</em> silver a day to have that lifestyle, and spend the other silver drinking with their buddies. When an adventurer hires them to till the fields for 2sp, they are basically doubling their income/lifestyle because either the adventurer is unwittingly also providing room & board, or they are using the "scraps" of the task that adventuerers wouldn't bother with (like gathering the chaff from the wheat fields, or the extra pieces of leather from the cobbler) to supplement their lifestyle expenses.</p><p></p><p>Tipping such a commoner a gold isn't "OMG I've never seen one", but it <em>is</em> like a $7/hr minimum wage person winning the local radio station's $1000 prize!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rmcoen, post: 9240692, member: 6692404"] Also keep in mind that it costs more to eat healthy. Look at the different in price between junk food (or the college-standbys of Mac'n'cheese and Ramen noodles), and fresh fruit, meat, etc. [Just forget post-COVID nonsense pricing for a minute.] You can get a big bag of chips for $3 (local brand, maybe not Ruffles), and have a "meal" or even two. Or get two bananas. Or the difference between a cap of soup for 60 cents, and a steak (which still needs to be cooked) for $10. One "reason" peasants stay peasants is because of the quality and quantity of food they can afford. Food = energy. But yes, as others have pointed out, there are usually multiple workers in a "home" that adventurers would be unwilling to live in. Maybe Worker #1 pays his entire 2sp/day to maintain the house and required living supplies (cloth, furniture, a new ladle), but Worker #2 is spending his on the meat and veggies going in the 6-person stew and porridge meals. And Worker #3 is bringing in enough that they can all have a couple pints at the tavern on Friday. While Worker #4 saves her pennies so she and Worker #5 can pay for reading lessons or an apprenticeship to maybe step up to the next "level"... To avoid playing "Bankers and Bookkeepers" (as a page-1 person mentioned), though, I assume that the "background" people actually have a lifestyle that is double what the PHB rate is. Or said another way, their "lifestyle expense" is only half what an adventurer's perspective on the same lifestyle would be. The workers in my example above - and most of this thread - only need [I]1[/I] silver a day to have that lifestyle, and spend the other silver drinking with their buddies. When an adventurer hires them to till the fields for 2sp, they are basically doubling their income/lifestyle because either the adventurer is unwittingly also providing room & board, or they are using the "scraps" of the task that adventuerers wouldn't bother with (like gathering the chaff from the wheat fields, or the extra pieces of leather from the cobbler) to supplement their lifestyle expenses. Tipping such a commoner a gold isn't "OMG I've never seen one", but it [I]is[/I] like a $7/hr minimum wage person winning the local radio station's $1000 prize! [/QUOTE]
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