tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Don't forget that religious organisations unlike in real life, have proven benefits to making them stronger, we don't sponsor churches to look good, we sponsor churches to get more actual support from their gods, if in real life gods sent miracles from the heavens, when you build big religious monuments, then the state sponsoring such monuments would just be good sense, we build big churches, both to secure more of our citizens afterlives, and because big churches help that gods power grow quicker, which mean more Clerics who can heal our sick and injured.
We are also working on helping our citizens in other ways, we are spreading rituals to improve farming, we are using Titan tools to make cheap secure housing, we are setting up infrastructure, we are training soldiers to protect our people from attackers, sure we could theoretically throw even more money at that, but we are already doing a lot, and doing even more is likely to run into diminishing returns, as we simply don't have the people to arrange things faster.
We are kind of working at it both ways, just we are actively working at increasing the poor's average wealth, whereas with the rich, we are merely working at limiting how much they gain, so their fortunes don't grow in percentage as fast as the poor's do.Hey, I didn't criticise the magitech military! There doesn't seem to be an alternative to war, so we may as well win it
EDIT : I criticised the adamantine cutlery and luxurious standard of living considered normal by the setting's elites while the poor die of cold in Winter. But changing that would be OOC... So let's work on making things better for the poor. Decreasing the gap between rich and poor can go both ways, but theoretically it's better to make a strong effort to raise the standards of poverty than to merely make the rich poorer.
We are doing this with things like our tax reforms, which will keep local lords from deciding, that since their peasants are now earning twice as much, they should be paying twice as much taxes, but still only receive the same amount of help from the lord.
With our new tax reform a lord has to justify extra taxes, which mean a lord can't just decide, that since his smallfolk are now earning more, he should raise their taxes so he can buy art for his castle, if he want to raise taxes, he need to have something he can justify needing them for.
We don't need to make the rich poorer, but we do need to make sure, their fortune don't increase at the same rates as the average citizens do, otherwise the gap isn't going to shrink.
