Quote Originally Posted by valhalla View Post
You can make all kinds of money on the auction house with some patience. It doesn't matter that there are transaction fees, those need to be there to counter all the new money that gets added to the world via jobs. If you add more high paying jobs without increasing the "gil sinks" you are going to have inflation and you'll be back where you started.
And where will these people get their gil from? the AH takes money out of the economy, eventually we will run out of Gil because it is being removed faster than it is being generated and deflation is much much worse than inflation.