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there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well
and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it
sometimes you just gotta draw a simon
Anyone else thinking about how odd the hermitcraft economy is?
in season 9 they had a minor economic recession after the diamond ore war because there were far too many diamonds in circulation making them (hypothetically) worth less than normal and ren stepped in as the king and did what has been done in the midst of a lot of irl economic depressions; he created a government so they could employ the policy of Keynesian economics (basically more gov't intervention to stabilize the economy, it mostly worked in 1930's japan!), he took control of diamonds and even introduced a new currency, royal emeralds (much like Germany after WW1! they had some hyperinflation because of the war reparations they had to pay and the gov't not understanding that printing more money makes the money worth less resulting in the mark [currency] being so worthless they started burning it because they couldn't afford wood for fires. a new gov't came into power and they replaced the mark with rentenmarks which did a lot of fixificating for the economy). Ren's gov't also introduced a lot of gov't funded projects like the quests (the irl equivalent for this would be Roosevelt's New Deal which introduced policies/projects called the Alphabet Agencies (among other things) such as the AAA, CCC, TVA (do you see why they're called the alphabet agencies?) that would adjust the value of grain so farmers could start earning money for produce again and create work that would support a growing economy, projects like building roads and bridges)
so basically, all the policies ren's government introduced were very logically sound and worked in real life to fix the economy (except that irl the Great Depression only fully ended because WW2 started-), the issue is that hermitcraft is not real life and hermits do not behave like real people, they behave like hermits.
lets start with the hermitcraft economy. unlike the real economy, hermits rarely adjust prices according to how many diamonds are "in circulation". i say this despite the fact grian in a recent-ish episode says that "everything costs more this season because diamonds are more common". that can't be true because the caves and cliffs update literally made diamonds more difficult to acquire. I will circle back to this point made by grian later
hermits not adjusting prices by server-wide abundance of diamonds (because they cant really know how much anyone has, much less the total amount of diamonds in circulation, they just know who has a lot and who is broke) means that more diamonds doesn't make them worth less like it did with German marks, it just means hermits have more expendable currency and can spend more money and less time gathering materials for projects. It is also notable that diamonds are constantly being added and taken out of circulation because they're an actual useful currency rather than real life currencies which are symbolic slips of paper. diamonds can be used for armour and tools and it can be acquired by mining. so because of how hermits spend money, taking diamonds out of the economy in s9 did nothing but make them poor and angry at the government. the hermitcraft economy is actually stronger with more diamonds in circulation and is worsened by gov't intervention.
so already the use of real life strategies is utterly useless in hermitcraft economy but there are a few other reasons as well
the hermits tendency to resist government as well as the flawed and greedy government itself are a couple but also the fact that all the hermits are self employed (in real life but also in universe). they own and stock their own shops meaning all profits are more or less direct; its not passed through hands of big corporations so the person producing the product gets mere cents. the hermits are essentially small business owners (which becomes a bit of a problem come season 10 but we're still talking about season 9). The important part is the self employment. the season 9 gov't introduces the quests which mimic and echo real life government funded projects but because they're all employed and the quests gave small amounts of diamonds back, they did very little for the hermits
I'm sure theres more to say but i think its time to move on to the very interesting season 10 economy
if you've missed it you must be living under a rock but hermits are all using permits this season meaning only one shop in the shopping district is selling any given item/material and as a result of this prices have gone sky high. at one point a single stack of mangrove logs cost 7 diamonds when in previous seasons you could get at least 1 stack of wood for 1 diamond if not more
So what is causing this economic depression and hyperinflation?
well, circling back to the point grian made about resources costing more because of abundance of diamonds, I would think it actually costs more because of the permits.
grian thinks the diamond prices are fair because he has middle of the road permits (and is one of the hermits who designed their shopping district, permit and economic system this season so he's biased), there is enough demand to keep him afloat when he's stocked but its nothing people are clamouring for and buying him out. on the other hand, joel made a lot of shops that no one shops at because his objectively weighted permits have not been selling as well as they anticipated when making the permits (also some people like etho and pearl have additional income from their not as fabulous permits because they've made a pay to play game to go with it) and finally there are hermits like mumbo whose gold, iron and item frame shops were constantly getting bought out so he was frustrated with trying to restock despite getting lots of profit
(another interesting dynamic to think about is permits like cleo's book permit which lost value as the season went on because everyone needed books early on but now that they're all playing late game Minecraft, everyone is pretty stocked up and buying from cleo less often)
Basically, grian is satisfied with the pricing because he's middle class and couldn't afford it if they were more expensive but appreciates not being constantly out of stock, joel is unsatisfied because he is lower class and never has enough expendable currency to fund his projects because materials are too expensive and his permits aren't worth enough to sell them for more, and mumbo is unsatisfied because he is higher class and is constantly out of stock because his materials sell out too often and he wants to sell them for more to stay in stock more (classic supply and demand, he doesn't want to stock them as often making the supply lower and the demand proportionally higher making them worth more and therefore more expensive)
the reason i say the permits are to blame for the high prices is because they cause the responsibility of constantly stocking something to fall on one person (in past seasons, if one persons sandstone shop was out of stock you could go check someone else's sandstone shop). the threat of taking the permit away if they arent stocked along with the difficulty of constantly stocking some of these materials raises the cost.
a great example of this is skizzleman because his mangrove and cherry wood shop was one of the first shops to be built in the shopping district, meaning he somewhat set the prices this season. now, mangrove and cherry are both difficult trees to harvest because of their unconventional shapes and the fact that they are more recent additions (and skizz's stubborn desire to design his own farms...) so because of the time required to gather them the prices already were hitched up. add that to the fact that they are trying to constantly be in stock and therefore low prices that allow hermits to completely buy out the shops are unfavourable, and you get sky rocket-ing prices. (it is also difficult because skizz had no prior experience with hermitcraft pricing)
in conclusion... hermitcraft needs a laissez-faire economy (f. a. hayek) to function and not go into economic depression. Between the nature of the diamond currency, hermits' tendency to rebel against governments, the way they use the concept of supply and demand to price their goods, and the restrictions permits put on supplying products, hermits have proven that extensive structure and government intervention have not improved economic wellbeing the way that it does in real life
thus, hermits do not behave like regular humans, they operate on fae laws of its funny so lets do it and therefore must be governed as such (aka not governed), thank you for coming to my ted talk
Ah yes so, you see, I am bored
Time to create a little organized table of things and tags
INFO
Blog not for children! Nothing graphic in sexual terms, there could be gore though if I ever end up drawing it and posting.
Biggest general warnings would be cursing and occasional mild raunchy humor, big maybe on that last one. Anything else that's less common will have content/trigger warning tags on the post itself so you can filter them, and have the correct content label/s.
ABOUT
Names: any variation of my username
Pronouns:They/he/she
Post animations and other miscellaneous artifacts in my youtube page, @ DenverDust on Youtube
TAGS
my personal art: #my art
non drawing things I make: #stuff I made
generation loss slimecicle and charlie: #gensicle slimecicle
asks (mainly my friends/mutuals): #ask reblog
@endlesswells content: #aster!!
@anonymousgold content: #Golden (H)our
mostly text posts I make: #random posts
lmao sorry yall for the pings
THINGS I ENJOY
The Good Place
Generation Loss
Rain World
Pikmin franchise
The Magnus Archives (not Protocol yet haven't listened yet)
Steam Powered Giraffe
In my own words 'Fukin the Take on Me music video why not'
Etc.
these images take me out because this is exactly how Ranboo would act if they had to do a photo shoot with the prompt “be a robber stealing a computer”
Saw image, gained slime
original/inspo below
*catches art and eats*
*throws art and runs*
Every time I get someone into Generation Loss, I eventually sit them down to have The Talk.
"So. Do you know about the towels and the anvils?"
I explain the entire Towel Saga, every clip there is of it, referencing it, from start to finish.
You can ask them. I have sat them down through the 3 hours explanation of all. Of it.
Why say this like it's not also sad, it is very sad
He dies
Y'know, sometimes I get sad thinking about all the super serious things in the genloss lore, but then I remember that slimecicle was literally a hand towel.
a cult whose leader thought they were just doing improvised live-action roleplaying and are only now realizing that oh shit, you guys were serious about this?
forgot I had this so
How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”
I have collected all of them in minecraft, I will collect this wonderful piece of art
PUPPIES!!!
The Fortune Cards Pt. 2
Pt. 1
@endlesswells this could be you if you watched the podcast again
Quick gerry sketch because I’VE GOT ONLY 20 EPISODES LEFTTTT
blackmallowegret this is so them :,)
Making a Moon Chart with my partner, very swag, I’ll ask them if its alright to elaborate tomorrow
@anonymousgold @endlesswells
also gold it’s killing me (laughter) how not anonymous that name is
Let’s play a game
Everyone post the most recent picture in your camera roll. You only get one sentence to justify yourself if you wish. This one is mine.
My boyfriend is rly good at Latin, so I was looking up how to say ‘I love you’ but found this instead :)
Your turn!
@bookmovietvworm
@myfairkatiecat
@i-am-a-fish
@valtsv
Aye she did, held her at gunpoint /j
Y i p p e e I didn’t know you posted it on here haha, Frank’s never looked better. 10/10.
I needed to.
😰
this new founders game is so scary
Ranboo and Charlie in Generation Loss
“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic
Check these out! Extremely cool!
Its okay and understandable if not, but would you ever do cards for the rest of the gl cast? Its fine either way im nust curious
Yes! Yay, I get to talk about this! This project has been simmering on the back burner for about two years tbh and I’ve got 90% of the cards accounted for (I’ll put the sketches I’ve got under a readmore in case people want to be surprised when the real versions come out)
Progress will be slow but it will be happening!
This has been chilling in my folder for MONTHS. I’m fairly certain I’ve got all the characters accounted for (some even twice) but if I missed someone lemme know!
Some of these are different, I know I changed the emperor a lot and am considering to change the hanged man a bit too but we’ll see! All of its fluid and that’s what makes it fun!