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<blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 995245" data-attributes="member: 5724">Actually the axe cost nothing but the farmers effort in his field. You may attempt to put a valuation upon that, but lets look the base assumption in the eye.&nbsp;He doesn't earn anything. He has income approximating that amount. And even then that income is not on a weekly basis. Its seasonal.Most farmers didn't have mules. Mules don't pull ploughs. His equivilent of 1sp a day comes in the form of (almost exclusivley) food.So now your saying that someone paid the farmer a SP for his work? heh..Mom and girls are doing a lot more than growing a garden. They're working in the field right along with &quot;pa&quot; when needed and they're doing the other necessasaries as well.Um.. a lb. of flour costs 2cp.&nbsp; Even if someone's paying silver to these people for field work, they can easily afford 10lbs of flour a day. (2SP worth)&nbsp; Also since he's a peasant, he probably eats more porriage (bread was good food for a peasant) because it has the highest effort to return ratio.That common meal your talking about? Well see, that's at an inn. Its kinda like when you buy a loaf of bread for a buck, when it would be more effective to buy the flour and do it yourself..Actually the family's doing quite fine.That's when he's glad he has an arrangement with the blacksmith who repairs is equipment for a set amount of grain on ayearly basis.Yeah, its hard to understand.The way the've always done it: barely.joe b.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgbrowning, post: 995245, member: 5724"] Actually the axe cost nothing but the farmers effort in his field. You may attempt to put a valuation upon that, but lets look the base assumption in the eye. He doesn't earn anything. He has income approximating that amount. And even then that income is not on a weekly basis. Its seasonal. Most farmers didn't have mules. Mules don't pull ploughs. His equivilent of 1sp a day comes in the form of (almost exclusivley) food. So now your saying that someone [b]paid[/b] the farmer a SP for his work? heh.. Mom and girls are doing a lot more than growing a garden. They're working in the field right along with "pa" when needed and they're doing the other necessasaries as well. Um.. a lb. of flour costs 2cp. Even if someone's paying silver to these people for field work, they can easily afford 10lbs of flour a day. (2SP worth) Also since he's a peasant, he probably eats more porriage (bread was good food for a peasant) because it has the highest effort to return ratio. That common meal your talking about? Well see, that's at an inn. Its kinda like when you buy a loaf of bread for a buck, when it would be more effective to buy the flour and do it yourself.. Actually the family's doing quite fine. That's when he's glad he has an arrangement with the blacksmith who repairs is equipment for a set amount of grain on ayearly basis. Yeah, its hard to understand. The way the've always done it: barely. joe b. [/QUOTE]

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