@Academia Nut May I ask what's the current literacy rate of our people? And if that rate is on an upward or stagnant trend?
Not AN, but considering that we have a section of the library devoted to "What not to do" for Artisans, it should be on the rise, since to get to higher ranks in the guilds, literacy is very useful and we've been expanding the artisanal population rapidly.
So for literacy values:
-Rural
--Fully illiterate - Largely unchanged other than a small initial drop. Farmers still have little use for literacy or means of getting literate, though Love of Wisdom says that we don't mind them doing a little learning in their free time, it remains that they'd probably find it more useful to spend their free time going out there and planting some trees.
--Domain literacy - Large increase. With the switch to the Guild economy, you'd be seeing an increase in rural artisans, who'd have some use for domain specific literacy, largely for processing orders and instructions in their trade.
--Full literacy - Small increase. Guild economy means that most villages and towns need their own clerks and guild factors to handle communications. Objectively speaking still a tiny number of people, but it's more than they had before
-Urban
--Fully illiterate - Shrinking slowly. While theres still a lot of dumb labor, the increasing usage of mills means less work for brute manual labors. In a city its more practical to acquire literacy, and of course, our cities tended to have libraries, which let them put it to use in the pursuit of Wisdom.
--Domain literacy - Growing slowly. Our urban artisans need some level of literacy to be easier to manage in bulk with messages and memos. But it's mainly as a means of advancement.
--Full literacy - Growing quickly. All the people need even more clerks to handle everything, more guild power means more guild elites must be able to read to contribute or use library resources. Over time this can be expected to grow even more, our entire ruling class needs to be literate to compete effectively using knowledge resources.
