Questions about ‘Global’ Trope

[Gray_Mann]

Chill mate, it's a fantasy world.

Yep. The modern fantasy author's version of this regarding slavery, "Chill bro. It's fantasy and my MC is a good-boy hero, surely he must end dat evil slavery bizness no?"

It's like....do you read ANYTHING educational/academic? Do you NOT realize that in reality, you just doomed a shit load of people by destroying slavery in their society? ....And I'm not talking about the slaves either. People that have nothing to do with it, following the inevitable MASSIVE backlash to the economy, THOUSANDS at a minimum, will starve because of your forced altruistic ego-masturbation, at least until things stabilize and an alternative is produced. But if no alternative is produced, or it takes many decades which is a very common realistic outcome in these scenarios....well you just killed the very civilization you were trying to "improve." Or at least weakened it so severely that the neighboring kingdoms are definitely going to take advantage of it.

Nice going Hero.

 

[Arch9CivilReactor]

What pisses me off about this, is bringing modern morals into a world that is OBVIOUSLY not modern, and then the MC getting that self-righteous attitude bullshit where they must "edumacate and enlighten these backwards primitives."

I also hate it when they do that bullshit subplot of ending slavery. This isn't the only example, but its one that everyone here can relate to.

Dude.....if you show up in a medieval/ancient era where slavery is a normal practice, you WILL NOT end it without uprooting the ENTIRE ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE of the kingdom/empire which at least in the short-term, even in best-case scenarios, will be CATASTROPHIC for EVERYONE involved. You don't just say, "stop it, it's wrong," and then everyone agrees and the world is better off for it. No. It doesn't work that way.

Also, even if you become the strongest being in that kingdom/empire, you still would NOT just get to wave your hand and be obeyed, and slavery vanishes. No. You have to IMMEDIATELY introduce economic alternatives. Ultimately, VERY EXPENSIVE economic alternatives....which a SHIT-TON OF MONEY will need to be accumulated to support. IMMEDIATELY. Need I say it again? IMMEDIATELY INTRODUCE THESE SHIT-TON EXPENSIVE economic alternatives. You don't just get rid of, for example, slave labor, and then tell the former slave owners they now have to pay their former slaves a wage for their labor now. They'll look at you like you're a lunatic and then say...."and where is this extra money going to be coming from?"

I know people will now say, paying these freed slaves a wage will now make them work harder, increase productivity, and thus the former slave owner, now boss, will make even greater profits to offset the expenses he accrues in paying wages. Yeah no, that's a BEST-CASE SCENARIO ONLY. It isn't the way it always goes. I don't know what gave people the idea that it is ALWAYS this way. It's not. It's pretty close to 50/50 actually.

That kind of hand-waving nonsense isn't realistic.

Definitely gotta make some fun magic economy then. I’m gonna use that Magical Cards idea I had to first introduce stuff, then I’ll see if it works or not. Will drop the idea if it’s not clicking with me internally.