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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9553206" data-attributes="member: 9254">Elves could maybe be post-scarcity.  They do spend a human lifespan to figure out how to be functional adults. But post scarcity is in conflict with human nature.  We  could be in a near post-scarcity world now if 50% of the world's wealth wasn't in the hands of 1% of the populace.Halflings seem to have "chill" as a racial trait that could let them be near-post scarcity.A world with modern equivalent health care is plausible.  There's no vaccines but most injuries can be healed in a day or three.  Its better, really, since Restoeqrion can cure blindness & deafness, Regeneration or clone can replace missing limbs and Reincarnate or Wish could even eliminate congenital defects.  Similarly if you have magic like Plant Growth that are equivalent to modern fertilizers and farmers aren't toiling in the fields but instead using "power equipment" (staves with cantrips & 1st level spells, ritual magic) to till the soil, pull weeds, water fields, harvest crops, etc. then we're up to quasi-modern farming. Add in "eternal food sources" like the Alchemy jug, which spits out 2 gallons of mayo (a dozen eggs and 1.5 gallons of oil, which is 1 person's protein and 24 people's worth of calories) and the Purify Food spells that cut down on food spoilage (if you remove poisons, botulism goes away) and there is a much reduced food insecurity than you would have in a pre-modern world.</blockquote>

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