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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 5902193" data-attributes="member: 6670763">However, a low-level laborer does not live by the same living standards of a minimum wage laborer in the US. Even the very poor in the western world often have a tv and a refridgerator, and indoor plumbing, and those are all things that are really quite hard to make and require lots of resources. A simple laborer family in D&D would not have carpets, glass windows, cushioned chairs, and other such fancy things.In Mozambique, the average annual income of the entire population is more like 1,000 USD. Which would be more like 1 cp = 30 cent. Okay, then again a very well doing merchant family wouldn't have the same living standard as modern millionaires either, so I would agree to bump the echange rate up to 1 USD.Okay, a sword would still be 1,500 USD and a horse 20,000 USD, which is really quite a lot, given that you can get an AK-47 for 50-100 USD in many parts of Africa today. But those prices are grossly deflated because of the massive numbers that were shipped in during the cold war and those things just don't break, and they were not produced to compete on the arms market but were paid for by the soviet government, who basically gave them away for free. And the soviets used industrial manufacture which results in massive savings because of economy of scale, so it would be much cheaper than having a single craftsman making weapons one piece at the time.And a longsword would not be the AK-47 of medieval worlds, that would be the spear at about 200 USD. That does not look like a bad aproximation.(Coincidentaly, the price of an M-16 is about 1,500 USD. The price of a longsword. ^^)Did you adjust for inflation? An 1870s dollar is about 20 dollars today.</blockquote>

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