>>6064928M82A1 anti material riflerunning .50cal costs ~10kUSD current year, assuming no tariffs or other nonsense.
A wagie might save enough to get one in two years, take out a mage graduate that's been studying diligently for like six years.
Glock 17 can be got by a wagie in two months at present prices; Atlas still might not have a counter to getting 9mm magdumped at him after two years at magic school.
Human tech is very OP. Wonder how none of the other races have gotten nervous enough to start repressing humans yet. Because if the humans have unlocked Smartphone on the techtree, the Hydrogen and Thermobaric Bombs should have been quietly unlocked several decades back already.
The magic world is all kinds of fukt they don't even understand.