SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.ml · edit-23 months agoBut if Gizbak stops maintaining his Summoning Circle tomes, the whole world of magic will fall apartlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1648arrow-down18
arrow-up1640arrow-down1imageBut if Gizbak stops maintaining his Summoning Circle tomes, the whole world of magic will fall apartlemmy.dbzer0.comSandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.ml · edit-23 months agomessage-square67fedilink
minus-squareChemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down3·edit-23 months agoErgo, Wizards can’t be exploited by capitalism
minus-squareFermion@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up46arrow-down2·3 months agoImagine thinking that PhD’s and postdocs aren’t exploited by capitalism.
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·3 months agoTo be fair, PhDs and postdocs can’t call down lightning from the sky or reanimate the dead to do their bidding.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoOf 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
minus-squareTransporter Room 3@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 months agoNor can they Magick-up all their needs, or transmute gold.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·3 months agoIt’s called a 3D printer, Amazon, and a particle collider https://glintpay.com/us/blog/modern-day-alchemy-making-gold-atoms-cern
minus-squareTransporter Room 3@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·3 months agoHmm. Too bad you need a bunch of resources for those instead of… Idk, waving your hand and saying some words.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·3 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?
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-23 months agoThat one kind of magic would be capitalism. I mean the situation from OP post is the current state of liberal economics.
Ergo, Wizards can’t be exploited by capitalism
Imagine thinking that PhD’s and postdocs aren’t exploited by capitalism.
To be fair, PhDs and postdocs can’t call down lightning from the sky or reanimate the dead to do their bidding.
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
Nor can they Magick-up all their needs, or transmute gold.
It’s called a 3D printer, Amazon, and a particle collider https://glintpay.com/us/blog/modern-day-alchemy-making-gold-atoms-cern
Hmm. Too bad you need a bunch of resources for those instead of… Idk, waving your hand and saying some words.
“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?
That one kind of magic would be capitalism. I mean the situation from OP post is the current state of liberal economics.
Yes