Well here's what I've been wondering. Presumably, in-universe, there's some company or governmental agency that gets all that gil. Now, it's plainly established that we are connected to both the aetherites in the source and the aetherites in the first. Does this mean that there's some poor little Lala accountant, sitting at his desk in Ul'dah, trying his damndest to figure out where in the hell all this extra money is coming from all the sudden? "Norvrandt? Where the hell is Norvrandt?"