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[–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or giant megacorporations each hire 200,000+ of them to create products for the non-magic folk to consume.

After a few decades, the idea of being a wizard is synonymous with working 8+ hours a day on magic that no wizard really wants and there is so little new spells and magic being created in the world that everyone wishes there wasn't any.

Then leaks come out that the products these megacorporations create have been slowly killing the planet and they've known for decades. But since they have so much power and money, nothing can stop them until the world dies.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

This comment made me sad.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's literally Megumin from KonoSuba lol. She's supposed to be one of the strongest wizards around, but refuses to learn anything other than explosion magic. Explosion magic is basically useless in most situations, as it just flattens a huge area.

*I didn't ask how close those buildings are, I said "I cast FIREBALL" *

-Megumin, if they played D&D

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 19 points 2 months ago

If magic was real, expert magic users would not trust it at all.

"Haha yeah I mostly do transfiguration magic but I do some evocation too occasionally. No I don't eat any transfigured food or do any of that at home or anything honestly I'm surprised it works at all."

[–] TheAuthor_13@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’d be hair restoration & ED specialized wizards within a year.

[–] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Oh great wizards finasteride and dutasteride, give me back my hair!

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ergo, Wizards can't be exploited by capitalism

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 29 points 2 months ago

Imagine thinking that PhD's and postdocs aren't exploited by capitalism.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That one kind of magic would be capitalism. I mean the situation from OP post is the current state of liberal economics.

Now that's just academica.

no way it's the yomi hustle guy