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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ergo, Wizards can't be exploited by capitalism

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking that PhD's and postdocs aren't exploited by capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, PhDs and postdocs can't call down lightning from the sky or reanimate the dead to do their bidding.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Of course they can and do call down lightning; the magic spell is called "lighning rocket".

To revive the recently deceased a spell called CPR combined with Defibrilation is used.

Some wizards dedicate their lives to researching even higher level spells

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nor can they Magick-up all their needs, or transmute gold.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. Too bad you need a bunch of resources for those instead of... Idk, waving your hand and saying some words.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

"A bunch of resources" being a pile of ancient tomes and a cheap craptop running Linux, as opposed to a pile of ancient tomes and a runestone?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That one kind of magic would be capitalism. I mean the situation from OP post is the current state of liberal economics.