Having looked at the people upstairs last week, now the New Worlds Patreon pivots downstairs, for a look at the servants . . . comment over there!

And in Year Seven, the New Worlds Patreon finally got around to talking about the aristocracy . . . Comment over there!

Having looked at the ideas of class and status, now the New Worlds Patreon is turning to the question of how those things get layered: which people are considered to be the most important and respectable in society, and which people are the least? The common answers aren’t always what you might assume . . . comment over there!

For the month of May, the New Worlds Patreon is turning its attention to the social divisions within society! We begin by clarifying some terminology that often gets carelessly used — that of class, status, and caste. Comment over there . . .

The end of the month means the end of a theme (for now), and so the New Worlds Patreon‘s last economic piece for April is on the complexity of two very different systems, manorialism and post-scarcity. Comment over there!

I promise, the New Worlds Patreon is not going to take you too deep into Econ 101 — but this week, we are talking about how much a given economy is planned and controlled vs. left to do its own thing. Comment over there!

The next stop on the New Worlds Patreon tour of economic systems is the concept of property ownership! Comment over there . . .

April will be an economics month at the New Worlds Patreon! We’re starting off with sources of wealth — comment over there . . .

Five Fridays make a theory post! The New Worlds Patreon is still talking about magic, but now we turn our attention to how magic intersects — or all too often doesn’t intersect — with the rest of the world around it. Comment over there!

I promise the New Worlds Patreon will get less grim very soon now . . . but before then, we have to talk about capital punishment. Comment over there . . .