@arghc said in Fushi no Kami (Manga) Vol 2 Discussion:
One copper piece for all Ash's work for a season seems... paltry?
That's after all expenses incurred by others, their share of the profits, etc.
Rather more to the point, the priest didn't seem to find it out of line.
No one he revealed it to considered it chump change.
One gets the impression this is a non-inflated economy.
By which I mean, you aren't having everything thrown out of whack by all the stuff that shows up in dungeon & monster based economies.
He commented that the coin could cover 1/4 of the expenses of preparing for the winter for his family; that's a significant amount of money when looked at from the perspective of his village.
And I suspect that Ash has a bunch of stuff he has to do for his family as a normal thing that aren't showing up in-story, as they'd be boring and not move the story along.
So this is the return upon what he did in his spare time.
Of which he still has an inordinate amount, to be truthful, but it's not the return upon a seven hour a day job.
And wasn't it a large copper piece?
The implication being that it's not the lowest denomination coin in use.
We don't know how many small coppers equal a large copper.
