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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 980945" data-attributes="member: 527">I'm not sure I see that, even in that link you gave.  It seems like tithes have bounced around a bit, but the goal is to make them effectively 10% - hence the word tithe.  For every potential discount there seemed to be an equal potential markup - the tri-annual tithe, the special Crusade tithe etc etc.Sidelight: I think its more interesting to notice that local Churches seem to have traded their tithing rights away to local nobles with such frequency that a Pope was forced to get involved.Anyway, the point is that an organization (a local Church) or a person (a local noble) would certainly collect enough money through tithing or taxation to be able to afford a Raise or ten every year at the 500G rate.  Out of the small population of a locality, how many Raises are needed to keep everyone (everyone useful, popular or connected anyway) alive each year?  Especially when a lot of the more powerful figures can afford their own 500G Raise.--But another approach: Basically, there has to be some economic cost to Raises to make the world make sense.  Is anyone arguing that Raise should have a zero material cost?  And once we agree that there must be a material cost, then arguments can be made about whether the number should be closer to 500G or 5000G.</blockquote>