How do I break out of those weird tropes but still write something with gnomes and shit? What does it look like when wizards control the means of production?

  • Bugger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    'Perhaps we could make some gesture. A minimum wage? Improved working conditions? I heard a recent fire in a mill led to the deaths of fifteen child workers—

    ' It would be folly,' said Bayaz, his attention already back on the gardens, `to obstruct the free operation of the market.'

    `The market serves the interests of all,' offered the lord chancellor. '

    Unprecedented,' agreed the high justice. 'Prosperity.'

    `No doubt the child workers would applaud it,' said Orso.

    `No doubt,' agreed Lord Hoff.

    `Had they not been burned to death.'