>>53733390>Food is easily purchasable for in-universe pocket changeIs it? I mean, a gallon of milk is pocket change for my salary. That doesn't mean my grocery bill hasn't steadily been creeping higher and it hasn't become a real problem for a lot of people. The player being a prodigy and easily affording everything isn't an argument for.
>while asking for no currencyThere's still the cost of feeding them, training them to do the work correctly and transporting them. Also, "houses can easily be built" is not the same as "the housing problem is solved". Look at modern America.
Also, again, there are miner classes, construction worker classes, laborers, etc. they often use Pokemon to do their work but they also need to get paid too.
>Given that the PC isn't unique for wandering the world alone at a young age, we can see that most incentives to commit crimeThat does not track at all.
There's some efficiency and better overall tech than our world but it's more likely a lot of the bad things are obfuscated as they're not necessary to show or friendly for kids playing these games. Pokemon isn't a shithole world for the fact they apparently don't have plumbing for instance. On the other hand while we aren't seeing mass droves of homeless we also do know they exist (Emma) and absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
