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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7870095" data-attributes="member: 93670">I used the US because it's got the highest firearm saturation by far, people who live in countries like Afghanistan and Somalia will no doubt have even cheaper options (I saw an article that listed things like rpgs in Kenya in thst same price rangef/ex).   The US also raises another interesting wrench in the equation. Not too long ago it <a href="https://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/report-minimum-wage-jobs-cant-pay-the-rent-anywhere-in-us" target="_blank">came out </a>that nowhere in the US is affordable to minimum wage workers without rent burden. The last war would massively affect the cost of housing in both directions depending on where you are & speaking as an ADU owning landlord it's probably important to decide where the slider for concepts like rent burden should fall... Currently it's more than 30% but just a few decades ago it was like 15-20%iircAlso the phb costs fail to take into account taxes.  In most of the world a large percentage of a firearm's cost is due to the taxes. Rising has a section that mentions a weapons license fee to carry weapons in part of Sharn.Edit: there is also that (possibly apocryphal) story of mother Theresa coming to the US to see poverty there and saying "yes but where are the poor people."  because of magewrights, gmo/magebred food crops, the beginnings of industrialized farming, and so many other things the "normal" standard of living to the average khorvaire citizen will be so much higher than your average faerun native and that should be reflected in things like cost of living in addition to things like the cost of a widget.</blockquote>

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