It seems many guild members have a feel good attitude
towards giving charity to the poor. This should be
however done carefully to avoid exasperating the
problems.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions....
Take for instance, on my previous adventure the good
dwarf Goran AxeBiter gave a donkey to the halflings of
sunnynook who already had one, this act of charity may
well kill six or seven halflings. Why you ask ?
Fifteen hafling families consume 120lb of grain a day
to survive, One mule consumes 10-15lb, think of them
as grain furnaces. Therefore 1 mule = six halflings,
the were extremely marginal to begin with with no
exess food so the mule will replace six halflings who
will die. ( Perhaps a noble will be so kind as to 
confiscate both animals and increase the food per
halfling by 1/4)

Feed a man a fish and he has a meal, teach a man to
fish and he has a life...
The beggar cult of Diancecht gives out meals in old
seagate ( soup kitchen ), this has attracted serfs off
the land looking for an easy meal without having to
farm. As more serfs and poorly skilled farmers leave
the land the remaining farmers have to work harder to
support the growing beggar population. In time this
could become as serious issue, by feeding a beggar you
are saying in effect that you like the idea of a lazy
good for nothing serf sitting about watching three
hard working farmers support him, I feel this is
amoral. A better option is to oppresss the beggars to
leave seagate and start supporting themselves, then
small quantities of food or tools can be "gifted" to
improve their miserable lives. Sometimes you have to
be cruel to be kind.

Arnaud De Montfort


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Sir Mortimer Graves
Thank you for the kind offer, however the Kombination
Baum-Holzschlagmassepflügt Maschine as you describe it
is probably uneconomic in the face of the current low
labour cost market. 

However a much needed addition to Seagate would be a
town clock which could be used to time the hours of
the day with a bell and allow fixed working hours to
be set rather than shorter hours in winter and longer
in summer. Extending the working day to forteen or
fifteen hours a day with workers labouring under
inexpensive lighting could dramatically boost the
productivity of seagate industry and result in
increased profits for both the duchy and the guilds.

"Let them work to keep warm in winter."

Arnaud De Montfort

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Beggars are lay-about riffraff who absorb food and street-space without ever
becoming useful, are untidy and smell. I am appalled to hear that there are
several farmers working full-time to support each of these beggars. What a
waste of effort. I agree with Arnold - you Carzalans should have a thorough
spring-clean and drive out these people who are consuming all the wheat and
stopping the farmers from providing food to those who earn it.

I gave some food to the nicer-looking refugees to encourage them to dress
tidily and queue in straight lines, but if the price of that is to take away
my food, I'll take back the food I gave them. I thought that only hobbits
were thieves - these people are stealing the food out of your mouths, and
there is only one way to deal with such sociopathic behaviour.

Faith
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The beggar cult of Diancecht gives out meals in old
seagate ( soup kitchen ), this has attracted serfs off
the land looking for an easy meal without having to
farm. As more serfs and poorly skilled farmers leave
the land the remaining farmers have to work harder to
support the growing beggar population. In time this
could become as serious issue, by feeding a beggar you
are saying in effect that you like the idea of a lazy
good for nothing serf sitting about watching three
hard working farmers support him, I feel this is
amoral. A better option is to oppresss the beggars to
leave seagate and start supporting themselves, then
small quantities of food or tools can be "gifted" to
improve their miserable lives. Sometimes you have to
be cruel to be kind.

Arnaud De Montfort


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