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    SpeckledBurd's Avatar
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    Oct 2016
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    Ul'dah
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    K'ahli K'uhla'tor
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    Balmung
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    Monk Lv 100
    This made me curious what the spending power of gil would be compared to real world currency.

    So I've done some math by comparing an easily identified commodity: The humble egg. A Boiled Egg from a random vendor in the Sapphire Exchange is 5 Gil, it costs $2.69 to buy an egg from an equivalent establishment: a Denny's. We can posit that the loose buying power of 1 gil to USD would be around $0.54. From this we can begin to calculate the prices of what various things on your menu would be.

    For example:

    Based on this loose conversion, your Dzo Steak would cost 5400 dollars. Over a hundred times what a steak at one of the highest ranked steak restaurant in the world, Porteno in Australia, charges for it's most expensive steak A sirloin that costs Around $70 in USD.
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    Last edited by SpeckledBurd; 03-09-2021 at 09:00 AM. Reason: math fix