Trusk'our he/him Posted October 24, 2021 Posted October 24, 2021 In Warbreaker, I'm pretty sure that it was said that it cost enough money to feed a small family for a year to purchase a Breath, but that doesn't seem very specific. How much in real life American dollars would on Bio Chromatic breath cost?
0 Chinkoln he/him Posted October 24, 2021 Posted October 24, 2021 In the US, the average family will spend about $8,000 on food per year.
0 Trusk'our he/him Posted October 24, 2021 Author Posted October 24, 2021 4 hours ago, Chinkoln said: In the US, the average family will spend about $8,000 on food per year. Thanks so much! So I guess that you don't have to be THAT rich to afford Breath, just moderately rich.
0 Frustration Posted October 24, 2021 Posted October 24, 2021 2 hours ago, Trusk'our said: Thanks so much! So I guess that you don't have to be THAT rich to afford Breath, just moderately rich. Well, that's $8,000 for one breath, not a lot you can do with just one, you need at least 20 or so for you to do much more than mess around with lifeless. 8,000*20 $160,000, for much of anything.
0 Trusk'our he/him Posted October 25, 2021 Author Posted October 25, 2021 4 hours ago, Frustration said: Well, that's $8,000 for one breath, not a lot you can do with just one, you need at least 20 or so for you to do much more than mess around with lifeless. 8,000*20 $160,000, for much of anything. True, I suppose. I meant more along the lines of that you didn't need to be a millionaire to be a candidate for purchasing Breath.
0 Chinkoln he/him Posted October 25, 2021 Posted October 25, 2021 But it’s along similar lines of, you don’t need to be a millionaire to buy a Tesla, go on a cruise, or something else. But if uses large sums of money for largely useless stuff… then why
0 +Oltux72 he/him Posted October 25, 2021 Posted October 25, 2021 12 hours ago, Trusk'our said: True, I suppose. I meant more along the lines of that you didn't need to be a millionaire to be a candidate for purchasing Breath. In preindustrial economies the share of income average people spend on food is larger.
0 Guest Posted October 25, 2021 Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) If you look at this as feeding a small family for a year in Hallandren, I think a better guess would be the price to feed a family for a year in a large city like New York City. Per this article (https://smartasset.com/mortgage/what-is-the-cost-of-living-in-new-york-city), it cost 471.34 per month to eat there. A family of four spending that much per person is $22642 per year. That is much closer to my intuition for the cost of a breath and it would mean that Vivenna has about 13.5 million dollars of breath. It would also mean that Susebron, as someone who has 10th heightening, would be a billionaire. Edited November 1, 2021 by DougTheRug clarity
0 Frustration Posted October 25, 2021 Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) On 10/25/2021 at 7:28 AM, DougTheRug said: If you look at this as feeding a small family for a year in Hallandren, I think a better guess would be the price to feed a family for a year in a large city like New York City. Per this article (https://smartasset.com/mortgage/what-is-the-cost-of-living-in-new-york-city), it cost 471.34 per month to eat there. A family of four spending that much per person is $22642. That is much closer to my intuition for the cost of a breath and it would mean that Vivenna has about 13.5 million dollars of breath. It would also mean that Susebron, as someone who has 10th heightening, would be a billionaire. The more you narrow in on a specific place the more discrepencies you are going to find, New York has a lot of economic policies that increase the price of basically anything, even without its size, so I think just using the average for the US would be a better estimate for economic transfer. Edited October 26, 2021 by Frustration
0 Brgst13 Posted October 30, 2021 Posted October 30, 2021 Will Nalthis develop a market hawking fake Breaths? Does a Scadrian prince need them to send him their Breath to get through customs? Will Walmart carry poor quality Breaths for discounted prices?
0 #1 Taln Fan he/him Posted October 30, 2021 Posted October 30, 2021 On 10/25/2021 at 8:28 AM, DougTheRug said: If you look at this as feeding a small family for a year in Hallandren, I think a better guess would be the price to feed a family for a year in a large city like New York City. Per this article (https://smartasset.com/mortgage/what-is-the-cost-of-living-in-new-york-city), it cost 471.34 per month to eat there. A family of four spending that much per person is $22642. That is much closer to my intuition for the cost of a breath and it would mean that Vivenna has about 13.5 million dollars of breath. It would also mean that Susebron, as someone who has 10th heightening, would be a billionaire. Yeah this sounds more accurate.
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In Warbreaker, I'm pretty sure that it was said that it cost enough money to feed a small family for a year to purchase a Breath, but that doesn't seem very specific.
How much in real life American dollars would on Bio Chromatic breath cost?
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