Timeline for answer to Why is this less profitable for an adventurer to craft and then sell an artefact, rather than to sell ingredients needed to craft the artefact? by L.Dutch
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| Jul 15, 2021 at 3:05 | comment | added | KarmaPeasant | @GreenstoneWalker Vertical integration doesn't exist in fantasy world because fantasy protagonists can be masters at everything at once? I don't see how it can make any sense. | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 2:44 | comment | added | Greenstone Walker | @user161005 it doesn't exist in fantasy worlds because fantasy protagonists (especially in computer games) aren't constrained by time and effort. In real life, the cost (money, time, effort) needed to become a master baker means you simply can't be a master smith as well. A computer game hero, on the other hand, can be a master smith and a master baker and a master herbalist and a master whatever - all while also being a master sword fighter and a mster spellcaster and a master cutpurse, and so on. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 12:25 | comment | added | Mary | They can go to a homeless shelter at need. Which would have central heating. As for food, the canning industry alone ensures that. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 10:49 | comment | added | James_pic | @Mary the modern homeless person definitely has better access to medicine than medieval royalty, but I'm not convinced on food, and confident you're wrong on shelter. I'd much sooner live in the Palace of Fontainbleau, Buda Castle, or the Tower of London, than in a tent city. | |
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| Jul 12, 2021 at 23:25 | comment | added | Mary | A homeless, jobless person in North America has access to food, shelter, and medicine leagues better than all commoners, and nobles, and royalty had in medieval times, and any other time and place before well into the 19th century. | |
| Jul 12, 2021 at 15:23 | comment | added | Nelson | @user161005 Modern 1st world countries are exceedingly wealthy compared to medieval times. Just look at birth rates. Having a baby die is a tragedy, not "Tuesday". As a homeless, jobless person in North America countries, they have access to food, shelter, and medicine leagues better than what most commoners have in medieval times. Note that this does not justify at all that homeless are not "poor"; they are, but relative to medieval times, they are extremely well off, because medieval times are atrociously bad. | |
| Jul 12, 2021 at 7:30 | comment | added | KarmaPeasant | @Cadence "there isn't a lot of concentration of wealth" I think you wanted to say, that there are too few people wealthy enough to be able to afford vertical integration. As for concentration of wealth, wealth in typical fantasy world is more concentrated than in our world, as there are very few wealthy individuals and the rest of population is either poor or very poor. | |
| Jul 12, 2021 at 7:13 | comment | added | Cadence | @user161005 In a typical fantasy world, there isn't a lot of concentration of wealth. There are nobles who'd have liquid cash to spend on vertical integration but they're relatively few and they probably have better (or at least more urgent) things to spend it on, like armies and tournaments. | |
| Jul 12, 2021 at 6:55 | comment | added | KarmaPeasant | "Why does a farmer sell the wheat to the miller instead of milling it and selling the flour?" This is called vertical integration. And it exists in real world. This raises a question, why does it exists in our world and not in the fantasy world described above? | |
| Jul 12, 2021 at 6:29 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |