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2013-01-10, 04:20 | Link #662 | |
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It’s all spelled out by Demon Queen herself in episode 1. There’s also a scene showing some merchants do some cheers for the fortune they’re making during the war to stressed that.
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2013-01-10, 08:41 | Link #666 | |
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Look, what I was trying to say is that the first episode presented a very simplified picture, wherein the Demon King was apparently the only one who was smart enough to see the greater picture, and everyone else we were shown was either helpless/blind to the situation, or going "war is good, war is money, ha ha ha *moustache twirl*" There was also, from what I remember, no mention of financial institutions and taxes, loans, etc. that existed in the actual European middle ages, nor the exact mechanics of how the war is actually being fought and from what funds, no mention of any revolts and power struggles that eventually happen during times like these... basically anything that might complicate the setting. Of course the first ep was just an introduction and I expect (or rather, hope) that the show will eventually touch on these things. And I guess the fact that it's humans vs demons and not humans vs other humans helps simplifying the issue, though I wonder about the relations between the humans' countries. And the three main points the Demon King mentioned in her exposition made me wonder. If this is a pre-industrialized setting then it's not like their "industry" is anything like modern industries so the "country whose entire industry is dependent on making war materials" sounds a bit off. And war as a population check kind of makes me "huh" - I mean, think of the Thirty Years' War or the Napoleonic wars, and what they did to the population of some of the affected areas, that was no "population check." And about the surplus population going off and dying in battles, can the population procreate fast enough to supply the needed amount of soldiers and workers, let alone create a surplus? How long has the war been going on, anyway? If they mentioned it I don't remember... Mind you, I'm no economist or sociologist so I might be on a wrong track, but if the show wants to tackle what it seems to want to tackle, I'd like to see a reasonably complex setting with more than a handful of factors at play. Of course all depends on how seriously the show takes its own setting... Quote:
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Who says it's boring? If the show wants to take its "yay economy!" aspect seriously I'd find such a complex world building more interesting than running into a wall of "don't think too deeply about this, have some boobs." Then again, 13 episodes, what can you do. Last edited by kuromitsu; 2013-01-10 at 11:21. |
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Does the US economy NEED war to be healthy?
The US economy did well after World War 2 because other countries' infrastructure was destroyed and ours wasn't. It wasn't intrinsically because of war. I think the military-industrial complex does pretty well even in times of peace. Sure, they sell more bombs when there's war, but their R&D does well regardless of war or peace conditions. I don't think members of the military-industrial complex need to be warmongers, nor do I believe the US economy needs war to be healthy. |
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2013-01-10, 12:18 | Link #674 |
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I would like to say that no matter the time period, no matter how some people might idealize it, war is murder and theft on a grand scale, of course somebody is going to benefit from it (otherwise nobody would start a war) and if it becomes a long enough (measured in years) it becomes part of the economy.
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Kuromitsu meant that Middle Ages were not the GRIMDARK Dun Ages that Monty Pythons and various medias made it out to be. There were food hygiene, technological development still happened, Spain under the muslim rule and Bagdad WERE the places to be if you were an intellectual. The Templar Knights were credited with the developments that will lead later to modern economy, etc... While it's nowhere a happy place to live if you have a time machine, it's not the miserable time that medias have made them to be.
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2013-01-10, 12:28 | Link #677 | |
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2013-01-10, 12:29 | Link #678 | |
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That is the equivalent of having a dispute with my neighbor for social, political and/or economic reasons, taking my shotgun, murdering him, taking his house, marrying his widow and getting the blessing of the local church >_< |
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