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I read it only in parts. Apparantly, there actually is a dollar-galleons-exchange rate carried out by Gringots.
“Consider first the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate (i.e. the exchange rate between the muggles’ money and the wizards’ money), which is not mentioned explicitly in the original 7-volume Harry Potter books, but we know from the books that the Gringotts handles such exchanges (Rowling, 1999a, p. 50). Based on information from three sources, we estimate that the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate is about $7.30/Galleon.”
The best of these sources is Rowling herself I think: “Third, in an interview on March 12, 2001, when asked by Rebecca Boswell, ‘What is the approximate value of a galleon?’ J.K. Rowling’s reply was ‘About five pounds, though the exchange rate varies!’ (Source: https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2007/02/04/wizard-money/, accessed June 6, 2022.) We conclude therefore that the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate is about $7.30/Galleon.”
Arthur Wesley after all also bought a muggle car and bewitched it.
I read the books. But yeah, the name could have been improved … just Wiz Tech for example.
No no, there is actually a whole economic going on and someone analyzed it: https://academic.oup.com/ooec/article/doi/10.1093/ooec/odac004/6646895
And its not so different and similary flawed than that in our world ;)
Idk. I mean, we all basically know how an engine works, how a coffee machine works, but these little magic devices that are supposed to work with these “microchips”. You can easily take apart an engine, but if you take apart a smartphone, you never find the bits …
Its a advertisement from the 50s/60s! I just thought how they would have advertised it at the time.
even a woman can understand it!
That’s from Mad Men
Oh, actually meant more like: how would this variant of the movie end? Wrong translation I guess?
(Edited the title)
You can probably exchange it. And I mean gold should count anywhere
I tried to base it on the advertising of the 50/60s. Its a bit thick …
Updated the image with readable texts. I will also cut down on the AI images in the future. Thanks for the feedback :)
Now that’s unfair, using digital artifacts in an empowering way could be very Solarpunk
Beats me … I can only vaguely point in the direction of … magic?
I think I got that people aren’t too keen on AI-generated images here. I get it. Its fine.
Come on, guys. Its important to amass more useful knowledge on Lemmy!
There is one fan-theory that they resemble roles in a medieval society: aristocracy (Slyterhin), knights (Gryffindor), priests (Hufflepuff), scholars (Ravenclaw).
I would go with Newt and Minerva. Newt has all the magical creatures and he was friends with Leta Lestrange, so that would maybe confuse Bellatrix.
Wer für den Müll empfänglich ist, interessiert sich nicht dafür, dass das vielleicht hinterher argumentativ auseinandergenommen wird.
Denke ich schon
Alleine die Tatsache, dass die Nazis da eingeladen werden, sendet schon ein klares Signal: “Das ist eine ganz normale Partei”.
Das ist halt das Dilemma, wenn eine faschistische Partei viele Wählerstimmen bekommt. Auf der einen Seite kann man sie nicht ignorieren, auf der anderen Seite gibt man ihr eine Bühne. Aber die Bühne hat sie in den sozialen Medien so oder so.
Hat man jahrelang so gemacht und hat nicht funktioniert. Außerdem verbreitet sich Propaganda am besten unwidersprochen. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass irgendeine dieser Talk-Sendungen jemanden von der AfD überzeugt hat.
Dark reading but fair point. I mean yeah, the fact that the goblins hold a money monolopy in the first place is really weird.
Apparantly in the books, wizards shy away from banking because of the bad image and so no one except goblins wants to do it, so a bad societal dynamic is hinted there. But then again, goblins ARE depicted as greedy and evil.