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Dark reading but fair point. I mean yeah, the fact that the goblins hold a money monolopy in the first place is really weird.
Apparantly in the books, wizards shy away from banking because of the bad image and so no one except goblins wants to do it, so a bad societal dynamic is hinted there. But then again, goblins ARE depicted as greedy and evil.
Occasionally halluzinating Patrick, with a knowledge only until 2022 :D
Yeah me too
I read it only in parts. Apparantly, there actually is a dollar-galleons-exchange rate carried out by Gringots.
"Consider first the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate (i.e. the exchange rate between the muggles’ money and the wizards’ money), which is not mentioned explicitly in the original 7-volume Harry Potter books, but we know from the books that the Gringotts handles such exchanges (Rowling, 1999a, p. 50). Based on information from three sources, we estimate that the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate is about $7.30/Galleon."
The best of these sources is Rowling herself I think: "Third, in an interview on March 12, 2001, when asked by Rebecca Boswell, ‘What is the approximate value of a galleon?’ J.K. Rowling’s reply was ‘About five pounds, though the exchange rate varies!’ (Source: https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2007/02/04/wizard-money/, accessed June 6, 2022.) We conclude therefore that the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate is about $7.30/Galleon."
Arthur Wesley after all also bought a muggle car and bewitched it.
I read the books. But yeah, the name could have been improved ... just Wiz Tech for example.
No no, there is actually a whole economic going on and someone analyzed it: https://academic.oup.com/ooec/article/doi/10.1093/ooec/odac004/6646895
And its not so different and similary flawed than that in our world ;)
Idk. I mean, we all basically know how an engine works, how a coffee machine works, but these little magic devices that are supposed to work with these "microchips". You can easily take apart an engine, but if you take apart a smartphone, you never find the bits ...
Its a advertisement from the 50s/60s! I just thought how they would have advertised it at the time.
even a woman can understand it!
That's from Mad Men
That's a fair point. So no internet-wizard-pubs ;)
Oh, actually meant more like: how would this variant of the movie end? Wrong translation I guess?
(Edited the title)
You can probably exchange it. And I mean gold should count anywhere
I tried to base it on the advertising of the 50/60s. Its a bit thick ...
Why hasn’t wizarding tech been privatized and sold to Muggles yet? Or has it already … (alternate Wiz-Tech-Timeline)
cross-posted from: https://diagonlemmy.social/post/6753
> Alternative Harry Potter narrative: since the global wizarding wars, many attempts were made by companies to sell their tech to Muggles. It was tolerated by the institute of Magic as long as it was not advertised as such. Above is an example of a banned, confiscated attempt to show the magic more openly. However, over time it turned out that Muggles weren’t even interested in the magic behind it, they wanted their devices easy to use and understand; and everyone else eventually joined the wizards and witches. > > Eventually, all regulations to sell magical devices were erased and since the late 80s with the introduction of the world wide web, the rise of wiz-tech has only increased in pace: next came the introduction of the iPhone by young wizard Steve Jobs, introducing wiz-tech to the broad public and lately, even magic itself can be channelled through so-called AI agents and the Floo-Network begins to open up to Muggles as well with the Fediverse. > > However, with the rise of bad effects that came with it, too, some Muggles are becoming more and more weary of the whole situation and in the wizarding community, people are calling for bringing their knowledge to the Muggles, taking some responsibility beyond their own magical realm, while others call for the institute to again take a stronger stance on the devices in the muggle world due to the negative effects they caused. > > How can a good future for both the wizarding and the muggle world look like?
Updated the image with readable texts. I will also cut down on the AI images in the future. Thanks for the feedback :)
Now that's unfair, using digital artifacts in an empowering way could be very Solarpunk
Beats me ... I can only vaguely point in the direction of ... magic?
I think I got that people aren't too keen on AI-generated images here. I get it. Its fine.
Image is, text isn't
Seriously, I will never sell this!
Why hasn’t wizarding tech been privatized and sold to Muggles yet? Or has it already … (alternate Wiz-Tech-Timeline)
Alternative Harry Potter narrative: since the global wizarding wars, many attempts were made by companies to sell their tech to Muggles. It was tolerated by the institute of Magic as long as it was not advertised as such. Above is an example of a banned, confiscated attempt to show the magic more openly. However, over time it turned out that Muggles weren’t even interested in the magic behind it, they wanted their devices easy to use and understand; and everyone else eventually joined the wizards and witches.
Eventually, all regulations to sell magical devices were erased and since the late 80s with the introduction of the world wide web, the rise of wiz-tech has only increased in pace: next came the introduction of the iPhone by young wizard Steve Jobs, introducing wiz-tech to the broad public and lately, even magic itself can be channelled through so-called AI agents and the Floo-Network begins to open up to Muggles as well with the Fediverse.
However, with the rise of bad effects that came with it, too, some Muggles are becoming more and more weary of the whole situation and in the wizarding community, people are calling for bringing their knowledge to the Muggles, taking some responsibility beyond their own magical realm, while others call for the institute to again take a stronger stance on the devices in the muggle world due to the negative effects they caused.
How can a good future for both the wizarding and the muggle world look like?
Ok, that's kind of underwhelming ... thanks anyways for the reveal!