basil's adventures

Not to mention the way the money was made

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

me:

me, approximately age 9:

So in a couple instances, regular animals are seen in the game, even though their villager-counterparts have sapient-level intelligence. Popular examples include octopi, which are villagers even though you used to be able to catch them while fishing, or this caged hamster.

Other items in the game such as these playground toys imply the existance of other non-person animals in this world as well.

Now I posit that this implies a Goofy/Pluto law in the AC universe, meaning that some animals are people and some are just animals. All characters in your village are simply the "people species". Completely reasonable.

Heres what I hate though- the human player is obviously a person-species, but you can get an anatomically correct human skeleton in the game:

Which implies that there is not only a more anatomically correct human species in the AC-Universe, but one that is entirely feral.