(07-07-2015, 05:56 PM)Intaki Wrote:(07-07-2015, 05:50 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: Well... they pay all the bills.Do they create value because they pay the bills, or do they pay the bills because they've hoarded all of the value and no one else can?
If it wasn't for them the Refugees wouldn't get fed, the roads wouldn't stay open, etc etc.
And let's talk about the lower peoples getting fed and the roads staying open: do these things not also greatly benefit the Monetarists? Roads open means more trade, which means more money. And when you stop feeding the masses, you end up with a lot of angry masses. Bad for Monetarist business, and bad for Monetarist life expectancy.
Much like the grunts in Office Space the Monetarists aren't contributing because they care or because they want to; they're working hard (or paying) just enough not to get fired (with a guillotine).
Well to be fair, this never was an issue before. The Lore of Ul'dah (that the narrator says when you make a character) implies that such wealth inequality was not an issue in the past.
People had more or less, but everyone felt the playing field was equal, and there was not much crushing poverty.
However the refugees were a cloud of cheap unskilled labor, without the skills to make it in Ul'dahs work force. The monetarists are likely not used to paying for social services, and the city is in some sort of state of transition. Yes the money they pay helps them in the long run, but they're paying far more than they did before. A burden that no other City State has been willing to do.
