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What Sort Of Income For Commoners To Get A Coherent Economy?
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<blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 8273242" data-attributes="member: 6943731"><p>An English pound, only applicable in England, as standardized weights and measures only come into being in the 18-19th century. That's why the US customary system differs from the Imperial system. England is just one tiny county at that time also. Many small states such as England had some sort of currency, except with no standard weights, and no currency exchange. In China, a much more advanced economy, had bank drafts by the 8th century, something it took almost a thousand years to be seen in Europe. I remember my Mother telling me about how she would ride to market with her Grandfather in a horse cart to take eggs to market, all done on a ledger; they still farmed with animals as well, and this is the 20th century.</p><p></p><p>In ancient Rome, one sees them change the purity of the silver coinage, to ease supply issues, and of course there were complaints about devaluation. Their economics continues up through the middle ages with the Byzantines. Problems with purity and counterfeiting continue to early modern times, such as with the Prussians counterfeiting the Polish coinage to collapse their economy. Beyond fanciful ideas with peasants using pound sterling, even the nobles themselves were of the character of robbers, currency could be a curse in that the lord of the land could simply take it. In turn paying it out as ransom after being captured by another noble.</p><p></p><p>So not a myth at all, if you read up on it, economics is more like a huge rabbit hole to fall down.</p><p></p><p>Game-wise, it's best to just assign a standard value to the yearly labor and split it up, such as 240 cp a year or something. Divide it up that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dragoner, post: 8273242, member: 6943731"] An English pound, only applicable in England, as standardized weights and measures only come into being in the 18-19th century. That's why the US customary system differs from the Imperial system. England is just one tiny county at that time also. Many small states such as England had some sort of currency, except with no standard weights, and no currency exchange. In China, a much more advanced economy, had bank drafts by the 8th century, something it took almost a thousand years to be seen in Europe. I remember my Mother telling me about how she would ride to market with her Grandfather in a horse cart to take eggs to market, all done on a ledger; they still farmed with animals as well, and this is the 20th century. In ancient Rome, one sees them change the purity of the silver coinage, to ease supply issues, and of course there were complaints about devaluation. Their economics continues up through the middle ages with the Byzantines. Problems with purity and counterfeiting continue to early modern times, such as with the Prussians counterfeiting the Polish coinage to collapse their economy. Beyond fanciful ideas with peasants using pound sterling, even the nobles themselves were of the character of robbers, currency could be a curse in that the lord of the land could simply take it. In turn paying it out as ransom after being captured by another noble. So not a myth at all, if you read up on it, economics is more like a huge rabbit hole to fall down. Game-wise, it's best to just assign a standard value to the yearly labor and split it up, such as 240 cp a year or something. Divide it up that way. [/QUOTE]
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