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How can agriculture/industry be economically viable in setting where magic exists?
Economics Occurs At The Margin
Depending on the particulars, which you don't provide so I'm speaking in general terms here, all such a magic system does is change the relative scarcity/abundance of ...
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How can agriculture/industry be economically viable in setting where magic exists?
Take a look at today. How many people, on average, are farmers? It takes very few people to produce the food everyone eats because our technology expedites everything. I imagine that a fantasy society ...
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How can agriculture/industry be economically viable in setting where magic exists?
There are several ways around this
Spells require material components, which require agriculture/industry. If you want to cast a spell you need to buy, make, or farm crops, textiles, etc.
Magic has a ...
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How can agriculture/industry be economically viable in setting where magic exists?
Good worldbuilding means balancing your magic system
The son of some friends of mine once asked me to evaluate a Star Trek-based Federation space ship they'd created. As is common with 9-11 year olds, ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
there are a lot of canonical examples and serious analyses that answer your question somewhat philosophically already, so I'm gonna throw in something a bit more alt: the Rajneeshpuram community (...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Euroatlantic Empire
The Empire started as the technological development in the late medieval has made possible a never seen explosion in research, commerce and science. That has lead to the emergency ...
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What are the consequences of making people's life choices publicly tradable on a stock market?
Freemen make bad corporations
Many of the laws and bylaws that give investors power over a corporation do not apply to human corporations. For example, investors generally do not have the power to ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Viva San Marco!
There used to be a tiny town in northern Italy placed in a flat lagoon... then the traders from there rescued the bones of evangelist Marcus and went on a spree of becoming an economic ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
The Dutch empire originated primarily through economic means. The Dutch East India company especially was an economic entity that gained influence in the East Indies through contracts with local ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
The simplest way to achieve that scenario is to have your Empire's security depend on something else than military might.
You almost nearly answered your own question. If the Economic Powerhouse sits ...
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What are the consequences of making people's life choices publicly tradable on a stock market?
You would have to ask yourself, where does the initial stock offering come from and what does it mean? When a company 'goes public' it is trying to raise money, presumably for further investment and ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
What's the motive?
Yes, your wealthy state is well-positioned to rise in power, but the normal state for such states is to milk the trade and sit fat and happy. And non-expansionist.
Why does it make ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Could an empire form primarily due to economic strength rather than primarily military strength?
False dichotomy, IMO.
The purpose of a military is to extract wealth, i.e. is economic. Examples:
Pax ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Well, yes, obviously
"Could an empire form primarily due to economic strength rather than primarily military strength?" Of course. Sure. Plain obvious. Because, you see, military strength ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Yes: the Athenian Empire is one such example
A Hegemony is an alliance or confederation where a single state holds all of the practical power and say-so. A Hegemony is not formed by conquest, but ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
It's a sort of chicken and egg problem: to fuel an army, you need a supporting economy, and to defend a strong economy you need a supporting army.
So, yes, economic strength is a good starting point ...
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