>>6300844>>6305123>MACROECONOMIC WORLDBUILDING>"Low wage part time job and constantly working...">"extremely exhausting... Barely time to rest..."I don't really know much about your circumstances anon, but I hope you do get some more time for yourself, to take it easy and relax for a bit. If no-one else appreciates your hard work or what you do, you should celebrate and reward and indulge yourself. I apologise if I went on a rant on industrial relations, wage suppression and debts, deficits and interest rate term structure here lol
>>6304832 but these are the invisible macroeconomic underpinnings of the low wage toil and labour burden you describe. I see it only through a blizzard of abstract statistics or Bloomberg Reuters FT headlines, so it is hard for me to imagine how it feels.
Maybe people play games or imagine fantasy worlds to escape but I always sought verisimilitude, hunting elusive fragments of the consciousness of the author behind the work, or the deep hidden cultural societal and macroeconomic forces that shaped their imagination and desires. I wonder if all dungeonmasters eventually become attuned to this, you have to inhabit so many characters and geographies and histories, it is impossible to imagine it all, at the limit the fiction always converges on what is real, the here and now of how you actually comprehend and live in the real world. Maybe the fiction only approaches the asymptote of the real and never actually touches it, but I think the imagination inescapably bends towards it. There are idealistic and ideological reasons why people try to distort or camouflage the imaginary worlds, try to outlandishly disguise and embellish fictional narratives with all manner of genre contrivances - arguably, that is all that genres represent - I think if you read and watch a lot you see through these symbols and metaphors into the actual experience and intent.
>>6300675pic related is a demonstration of this economic worldbuilding, from Ad Astra (2019)
