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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lamoni" data-source="post: 2999789" data-attributes="member: 12680">That is true.  It doesn't HAVE to make real world sense.  However, I greatly appreciate any thought that is put into a magical economy.  That is one thing that bugs me about the Harry Potter books.  Why are the Weasley's poor?  Sure it can make sense that they earn less than other wizarding families, but why do they have to live as poor as a poor muggle would?  Why does traveling cost money?  Maybe it does all make sense somehow, but for people with a mind for economics it throws us out of the fantasy world we are trying to immerse ourselves in.  We should at least be given a small reason as to why it might make sense for this to occur in the fantasy world.One idea I had was that creating magic items actually uses your gold as a material component.  If the gold was actually used up in the item creation process, we wouldn't have to fabricate excuses for it to be spent on other items and we wouldn't have to explain how those ordinary workers that you bought your items from are making thousands of times more money than their fellow laborers.</blockquote>