Why do the corrupt merchants always have to be idiots?
They are merchants for Mammon's sake, they should know how to profiteer from this shit and yoink their rights before they notice.
@panzerkampfwagyu extreme case of tunnel visioning by thinking more as a rotten bourgeois rather as merchants? like, they got so prideful that they let it get into their head that a random countryside twerp is making the headlights and these old farts ain't havin it
@wolvenworks and @rudezki
Well, in that case they shouldn't even be that powerful but have been overtaken by smarter merchants ages ago.
This is just giving the MC some idiots to beat in order to shill him and his friends, with no regards to whether these idiots actually could reasonably hold this position if they were this stupid.
@panzerkampfwagyu It's only because they're all greedy and stupid and usually those types band together to crush those that can't be corrupted. In that case no matter how smart you are, if you're not powerful enough, you'll lose.
I know those nobles and merchants are greedy and evil but what they say is right. you cant have 1 company have a monopoly in and out of the nation. That is really bad for everybody.