6150th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 8)

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#1423

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#1424

iā€™m dying

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#1425

Having trouble understanding the light novel economy
I know itā€™s somewhat how itā€™s done in some RPGs but monsters drop money. If they drop money, why isnā€™t inflation sky high? Each monster drops a set amount of money. AFAIK the only way to get rid of this money from causing massive inflation is having rich people hoard all the excess money (which is a really funny way to solve inflation is for it to trickle up to the rich people who will sit on it and do nothing with), adventurers dying and their money disappearing into the dungeon, or very high taxation for wherever the money ends up

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#1426

It would be different if the monsters dropped items worth stuff, which they do, but they also drop money

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#1427

I dreamed of a tornado which turned the sun green. The green sunlight was dangerous to be in, it was like radioactive, so you had to hide in a place where minimal sunlight would reach. It was as dark as night and the sun looked more like the moon.

For some reason, this was out on a lake on an inflated raft with dark walls (despite THE TORNADO). Everybody did this in groups of 4 and they got new titles for the time they were there. I had to do a calculation about how much green light would reach the people inside (99% absorbance curtains, only 1% of the light was Greened, and then there was another *0.01 I donā€™t remember the source of).

And people had to gather food. It was recommended everybody get a dog to defend them from wild animals, the people my camera was following wanted a golden retriever but the only one they ahd was like 1% some other breed so they got an entirelt different fictional breed resembling a german shepherd that was actually purebred. While one of the people from the family was out, there was a bear, and they threw down two of their raw eggs on the ground to distract the bear and ran, but then the bear wanted more so it followed them. Couldnā€™t get in the raft though. The dog kept barking at it (and I also barked like a dog) to scare it. Then a wolf and a coyote came along and attacked the bear also, and the bear defended the family because it had been fed.

Ash was one of the people out on the lake. He went missing for a bit when the tornado came by and tore up his groupā€™s shelter. But once the tornado passed and it was regular day we found him swimming in by the shore of the lake. Hannah from Mahjong Soul was also there, she survived and came back to the shore, greeted by her family members who hadnā€™t been in the tornado, but they were shitty and mean so she was considering leaving them and working at the concession stand at this, like, camp we were all at.

Then there was this brief sequence in some kind of underground laboratory (which looked like a museum, like the spy museum in DC) where we were testing the effectiveness of radiation protective gear. The old people tested it because the onset of sympts after exposure only happened after 20 years. There were some underwater ruins in the lab which were super radioactive. Geiger counters were going crazy.

And that was my dream

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#1428

This might be the solution actually

#1429

Saved by plot armor.

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#1430

the first is usually it

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#1431

I mean in real life the fed still prints an amount of money each year, surely it functions like that. A constant influx of money which ends up replacing the money that gets lost/taken out of circulation in some way and causing like 2% inflation

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#1432

The amount of monster money you get is capped because itā€™s hard to kill monsters

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#1433

that could also be it yeah

#1434

Where are the monsters getting money from?

#1435

the wealth gap is so big that it loops around and a few coins can get you through the week

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#1436

if anyone asks i did not tell you it was okay to perform economics like this

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#1437

Or is whatever they drop considered currency because it helps bolster the economy?

#1438

they spawn with a bag of money clearly
since the money drops are consistent except for special monsters like mimics they arenā€™t getting it from corpses

#1439

Iā€™m going to assume this, then.

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#1440

Does indicate that adventurers are considered a powerful voting bloc.

#1441

I have yet to see a light novel fantasy world with democracy in it

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#1442

To be fair to monarchy they actually work really well if the king is competent