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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8707022" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Let's try a different tack. Since you want to make this about resource allocation. The Law of Diminishing Returns. If I run a business, and I have 1 employee, my workforce is X. If I hire a second employee, I have increased my workforce by 100% and doubled my productivity. If I hire a third employee, I have only increased my work force by 50% and only increased my productivity by 50%. You can't just add more people and increase things infinitely.So, yes, in theory 70% mining 30% theater is different from 30% mining 70% theater, but how many people can you fit in the mine? The mine shaft and the ore in it is a finite resource, and at a certain point you are just being ineffiencent by having more people trying to mine the same ore. So those people go to do other jobs. And sure, maybe only 30% of those jobs are theater, but that's still 30% of the entire population doing theater. And you asked a question that I think has a different answer than you meant. Can a city spend the same hour twice? Well... kind of yes. Because if one person can spend one hour doing one thing, then a city with 10 thousand people can do ten thousand things in a single hour. And do to the law of diminishing returns, not all those work hours can be put towards the same thing, in fact, they often get allocated to other things. And dwarves would value things like theaters, because they value history and the stories of their clans, which are ripe material for playwrights. Historical accounts produced as plays is an entire genre!If your entire point is that halflings put on better plays than Dwarves.... maybe they put on plays other people like more. But dwarves have plays, and they build better theaters than halflings, because dwarves are the best at building things. And are halflings the best at plays? I'd say no, that's probably elves, because elves have a focus on art, and theater is about art, not community. But, I'd also say, dwarves probably hate Elvish plays, because they don't have the same values as elves, and dwarves would say that dwarvish plays are the absolute best plays, because they are dwarvish. And since art is entirely subjective... they'd be right to say so. And there are so many dwarven working hours that they are still going to have all of the fundamental parts of society, because they are a functioning society. Whether or not they are "the best in the world" at it is a completely different question.</blockquote>

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