• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    At work they’d be forced to use the magic that the market demands

    Yeah, in a world where fire magic existed, there would be fire magicians whose day job was being a human-powered blast furnace, blasting something with fire over and over. They wouldn’t be out having adventures, and the use of their magic would probably be heavily regulated.

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      2 months ago

      Counterpoint, imagine society if 2% of the population had a gun with infinite bullets that they could never put down

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        2 months ago

        I bet those guys would get exiled. Or, if it were a religious society, they’d be sent on “crusades” over and over until they were dead.