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How do most wizards live day-to-day?
Rasins:
I agree, Q.
Remember that Luccio enjoys reading about computers and their applications.
I have no doubt that the Wouncil has a cadre of Vanilla mortals doing all kinds of things with tech that they cannot.
Tiberius:
I dunno, guys. Maybe it's simpler in USA, but Europe is a buerocratic hellhole. For instance, for me to be able to use the seal/stamp/whateveryoucallit of the company I work for, I hed to get a letter of authorization from the company and had do sign some bogus paper and notarize it. Then I had to go to the ministry of public administration for them to put their own stamp on that piece of paper, so they knew and officially recognized my stamp. At all the locales visited, I had to provide my personal ID and a copy of my contract.
And that's just for one friggin thing. And for each and every one of them, there's a whole lot of paperwork.
Rasins:
Oh, it's pretty bad here in the US too. And what's worse, it's different for each state and the Federal government.
Sometimes Cities and Counties get in the mix as well.
Tiberius:
--- Quote from: Rasins on June 02, 2017, 02:39:31 PM ---Sometimes Cities and Counties get in the mix as well.
--- End quote ---
You're lucky :'(
And don't get me started on corruption in the even worse shithole that is the Balkan peninsula.
Edit: our corruption is worse/on a higher level than that of the black council or the wamps. They seem like sloppy amateurs to our professionals.
LittleBug:
I'm sure they get fake identities the old fashioned way, the same way vanilla mortals do now. They have to provide proof of identity to go to Univeristy in any country, and most of them have a lot of money to buy those kinds of things.
If regular humans are able to create fake identities for a lot of money, I'm sure wizards can too paying the same people. And they mention at one point that wizards don't have any limits on using magic to make money as long as they don't break the laws of magic. So they could do some outright unethical things in our eyes if they keep to the laws. Harry and Ebs talk about it at one point in Changes I think.
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