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Youngsters these day, always playing with their phone. When I was young, all we had was a wheel and that was enough! This, I might be able to believe it. I am convinced that I am not using the same language over my lifetime. Sure, it didn't change drastically, but some words went out of use...

It's also worth mentionning that I feel the highly magical FR has better means of preserving information than our middle ages, briding the gap with Netheril better than it would be between the fall of Rome and us. Elves were mentionned -- it's difficult to speak of a long-lost civilization if...

It's because this board is located on the bottom side, they fell into the void.

Well, I added the part about income because Umbran specifically called out that wages don't reflect inequalities. They don't, of course, but that wasn't my point. My point was that technological increase did allow overall wage growth, and that in many countries we saw a reduction in wage...

I was illustrating job transitions into already identified, unfilled jobs. As you mention, the emergence of a ruling class and a warrior class was a new development (to own food producing land that it was until then useless to hold on). It was an illustration of creating new jobs out of the new...

You didn't understand what I meant by compensating. Most got a slight increase, and the large increase for the happy few is bigger than the loss experienced by those who lost. Even the bottom 10th percentile rose by 6.5% (inflation-adjusted). So even the poorest household had an increase, even...

Thing is, those individual situations are not showing at a more macro level, so for every family that lived worse due to the change, another family lived much better than before, so it is more than compensating overall. It is of course of no comfort to the family that is living worse, but that's...

Thank you for pointing out this link (and for allowing me to put a source on the quote). The question that remains is, "do we still have unfilled jobs to fill?". When we replaced our hunters-gatherer with peasants, it freed manpower to occupy jobs as shaman and soothsayers that we needed...