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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9500880" data-attributes="member: 9254"><p>Commoner doesn't mean pauper. Unskilled laborers live at the ragged edge, but skilled workers earn 2gp/day, so the 50gp items are 1 month wages. They only need 1gp/day to live, so if they save 2-3 months they can afford these things, which save them more money in the long run, meaning they can buy even more of them over time.</p><p></p><p>What is a skilled worker? Well, obviously crafters (smiths, woodworkers, jewelers, alchemists, herbalists, brewers, distillers) and "paper pushers" (cartographers, calligraphers) but also the "common" artisans, like cooks, cobblers, carpenters, masons, painters and potters.</p><p></p><p>This isn't "the 1%", it's more like 20%, where each skilled worker has a couple unskilled helpers (dish washers, fire stokers, vegetable peelers). Meaning the unskilled likely work part of the time in the light from Continual Flame, near a chef who has a Heward's Spice Pouch, or a calligrapher/cartographer with an Illuminator's Tattoo, or minstrals with Instruments of Illusion or Wands of Conducting.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The "system mastery" here is basic economics. Humans have established a solid grip on that for like 4,000 years. (The Ur Compaint Letter :<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir" target="_blank">Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia</a>) Banking and usury has been around for a loooong time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again....1 month's skilled wages. It's like stealing an 80" TV or a MacBook Pro from a lawyer's house. It doesn't break them, but it makes them mad. Possibly mad enough to offer a reward/bounty.</p><p></p><p>Rich-people-justice is also "system mastery" that humans figured out several thousand years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 9500880, member: 9254"] Commoner doesn't mean pauper. Unskilled laborers live at the ragged edge, but skilled workers earn 2gp/day, so the 50gp items are 1 month wages. They only need 1gp/day to live, so if they save 2-3 months they can afford these things, which save them more money in the long run, meaning they can buy even more of them over time. What is a skilled worker? Well, obviously crafters (smiths, woodworkers, jewelers, alchemists, herbalists, brewers, distillers) and "paper pushers" (cartographers, calligraphers) but also the "common" artisans, like cooks, cobblers, carpenters, masons, painters and potters. This isn't "the 1%", it's more like 20%, where each skilled worker has a couple unskilled helpers (dish washers, fire stokers, vegetable peelers). Meaning the unskilled likely work part of the time in the light from Continual Flame, near a chef who has a Heward's Spice Pouch, or a calligrapher/cartographer with an Illuminator's Tattoo, or minstrals with Instruments of Illusion or Wands of Conducting. The "system mastery" here is basic economics. Humans have established a solid grip on that for like 4,000 years. (The Ur Compaint Letter :[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir"]Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia[/URL]) Banking and usury has been around for a loooong time. Again....1 month's skilled wages. It's like stealing an 80" TV or a MacBook Pro from a lawyer's house. It doesn't break them, but it makes them mad. Possibly mad enough to offer a reward/bounty. Rich-people-justice is also "system mastery" that humans figured out several thousand years ago. [/QUOTE]
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