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beccaelizabethWizarding Britain again, and the number of wizards problem.
How can a tiny population support the kind of wealth inequalities where multiple families have mansions?
Like if all you needed to build them was magic, which seems logical, you would have mansions for everyone.
If the whole population is a small town, how could any skim so much from just that many?
It seems like they're regular people rich too, monopoly board rich, with property in London they must have owned for ages.
Magic can get money from the unprotected pretty easily, probably work wonders in fraud, and then poor wizards might have a morals problem.
But just... what resources are going around the wizard economy on what scale
and where do they really get the food?
If this is a replicators problem, trying to figure out an economy where the only limiting factor is power, that makes some sense.
But, land.
... okay, so most writers dont start with the economy, but...
How can a tiny population support the kind of wealth inequalities where multiple families have mansions?
Like if all you needed to build them was magic, which seems logical, you would have mansions for everyone.
If the whole population is a small town, how could any skim so much from just that many?
It seems like they're regular people rich too, monopoly board rich, with property in London they must have owned for ages.
Magic can get money from the unprotected pretty easily, probably work wonders in fraud, and then poor wizards might have a morals problem.
But just... what resources are going around the wizard economy on what scale
and where do they really get the food?
If this is a replicators problem, trying to figure out an economy where the only limiting factor is power, that makes some sense.
But, land.
... okay, so most writers dont start with the economy, but...