[Dragaera] More on Teleportation Economics

[Jon%20Lincicum]

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From: "Alexx Kay" <alexx at panix.com> 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:05:49 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: [Dragaera] More on Teleportation Economics 

>As near as I can figure, Vlad learns to teleport in considerably under a 
>year, at age 14, starting from no knowledge of sorcery whatsoever. (All 
>this learning takes place "shortly before" his father's death.) It seems 
>my gut feelings about the level of difficulty in learning to teleport were 
>misguided. 
> 
>Perhaps a better metaphor than "programming a computer" would be "driving 
>a car". People who are *very* poor (or very eccentric) don't learn the 
>skill, but almost everyone lower-middle-class or above does learn it. 

While I'd say that this is a fair assessment, bear in mind that "Very poor" describes about 95% of the population of the Empire. 

This proportion is probably somewhat lower in Adrilankha itself, where there is at least some appreciable merchant class... Say only 80%. 

Majikjon