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<blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 89915" data-attributes="member: 2486"><p>All it takes is one Murlynd's Spoon!</p><p></p><p>Here's how it works:</p><p>Firstly, you are a high(ish)-level wizard. Instead of buying a +X Headband of Intellect, manufacture a small supply of Murlynd's Spoon.</p><p></p><p>Hire helpers in various cities (better, take Leadership and use followers) and set up 'cheap food' restaurants. The punter comes in with a bowl, the lackey goes out the back and returns with a pot of gruel. Voila! Charge very very low prices (say a few copper).</p><p>Before long, given that this is the Middle Ages and most people are impoverished, you will find that more and more people will come to your Murlynd's Spoon Restaurants.</p><p>This will have three main effects:</p><p>1. Others will begin to copy you. If you are paying your minion 1sp per day, and he sells rougly 1000 meals in a large city, since expenses are nearly nil, you can expect to make (say you charge 2cp) 20 gold per day. In rougly a year, you've paid back your expenses. Entrepeneurs will realise and join the market. Alternately, you just use the profits and expand expand expand.</p><p></p><p>2. The price of food plummets and the reliability is increased. Because most medieval peasants end to live and not to enjoy, they will buy your Murlynd's Mush. The ample cheap supply of Murlynd's Mush will cause all those to eventually have cheap food in large cities with no harvest failure problems.</p><p></p><p>3. Farmers will go out of business, as there food prices are being undercut (assume no strongarm farming guilds)</p><p></p><p>This will lead to two things in turn:</p><p></p><p>1. Urban Migration. As farmers go out of business, the rural economy will fold. Agricultural workers will be forced to move into the cities for alternative employment.</p><p></p><p>2. Increase in Real Disposable Income. In the bad old days (pre-Murlynd's Mush), most labourers, peasants and the like spent nearly all their disposable income on feeding their families. With the advent of Murlynd's Mush, they have income to spend on other goods.</p><p></p><p>Point 2 will cause a boom in demand for manufactured consumer goods (plenty of surplus income, so consumers demand more goods). Point 1 will cause a boom in supply for manufactured consumer goods (plenty of surplus labour). These are basic economic tenets.</p><p>Thus, the Murlynd's Mush will cause the economy to shift from one of predominantly agriculture to one of predominantly manufacturing. Urbanisation has occured, the consumer economy is booming and before long the country is fully industrialised. Establish Murlynd's Mush Restaurants throughout the world and before long you have a full-scale Industrial Revolution on your hands!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al, post: 89915, member: 2486"] All it takes is one Murlynd's Spoon! Here's how it works: Firstly, you are a high(ish)-level wizard. Instead of buying a +X Headband of Intellect, manufacture a small supply of Murlynd's Spoon. Hire helpers in various cities (better, take Leadership and use followers) and set up 'cheap food' restaurants. The punter comes in with a bowl, the lackey goes out the back and returns with a pot of gruel. Voila! Charge very very low prices (say a few copper). Before long, given that this is the Middle Ages and most people are impoverished, you will find that more and more people will come to your Murlynd's Spoon Restaurants. This will have three main effects: 1. Others will begin to copy you. If you are paying your minion 1sp per day, and he sells rougly 1000 meals in a large city, since expenses are nearly nil, you can expect to make (say you charge 2cp) 20 gold per day. In rougly a year, you've paid back your expenses. Entrepeneurs will realise and join the market. Alternately, you just use the profits and expand expand expand. 2. The price of food plummets and the reliability is increased. Because most medieval peasants end to live and not to enjoy, they will buy your Murlynd's Mush. The ample cheap supply of Murlynd's Mush will cause all those to eventually have cheap food in large cities with no harvest failure problems. 3. Farmers will go out of business, as there food prices are being undercut (assume no strongarm farming guilds) This will lead to two things in turn: 1. Urban Migration. As farmers go out of business, the rural economy will fold. Agricultural workers will be forced to move into the cities for alternative employment. 2. Increase in Real Disposable Income. In the bad old days (pre-Murlynd's Mush), most labourers, peasants and the like spent nearly all their disposable income on feeding their families. With the advent of Murlynd's Mush, they have income to spend on other goods. Point 2 will cause a boom in demand for manufactured consumer goods (plenty of surplus income, so consumers demand more goods). Point 1 will cause a boom in supply for manufactured consumer goods (plenty of surplus labour). These are basic economic tenets. Thus, the Murlynd's Mush will cause the economy to shift from one of predominantly agriculture to one of predominantly manufacturing. Urbanisation has occured, the consumer economy is booming and before long the country is fully industrialised. Establish Murlynd's Mush Restaurants throughout the world and before long you have a full-scale Industrial Revolution on your hands! [/QUOTE]
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