Is wealth really the measure of one's magic?

[pixel_fortune]

Lon Milo Duquette is another non-rich magician who I don't think anyone would deny is legit

(He has said, "Based on my lifestyle and personal laziness, I should be BROKE, but I'm always getting by okay" - which is the amount he cares about)

 

[Xenophon]

Lon Milo Duquette is another non-rich magician who I don't think anyone would deny is legit

(He has said, "Based on my lifestyle and personal laziness, I should be BROKE, but I'm always getting by okay" - which is the amount he cares about)

"Money is a high-maintenance mistress."---(probably said by some snooty French guy who was a homey to Voltaire, Diderot, et.al.)

 

[kaikai]

Just a couple of physical manifestation videos would trump wealth. Come on make something float in the air or utterly disintegrate a box of cereals!

 

[Khoren_]

Just a couple of physical manifestation videos would trump wealth. Come on make something float in the air or utterly disintegrate a box of cereals!

To be fair, any magician that can assertively prove magic like that (and not via stage magic) would probably be very rich, or very dead

 

[Xenophon]

To be fair, any magician that can assertively prove magic like that (and not via stage magic) would probably be very rich, or very dead

He's only rich IF he goes public and turns showman. Besides a first-rate illusionist can seemingly do the same things and nearly no one can tell the difference.

 

[Taudefindi]

"Based on my lifestyle and personal laziness, I should be BROKE, but I'm always getting by okay" - which is the amount he cares about

"Getting by" in this economy is already good enough.If one can do that with magic then they don't have much to worry about.

Although being able to be safely on the "above getting by" is always preferable.

utterly disintegrate a box of cereals

I don't need magic for that.

make something float in the air

This one would never be a credible proof because of the many ways we already have to make things float on air(be through trickery or science).

To be fair, any magician that can assertively prove magic like that (and not via stage magic) would probably be very rich, or very dead

I don't know if a magician able to conjure lightning with their hands would surpass someone with a gun...

But it's certainly it the type of magician people first think of when they imagine one.

a first-rate illusionist can seemingly do the same things and nearly no one can tell the difference.

Most illusionists nowadays seem to depend a lot on the props they use rather than just on their skill, angles/positioning also play a hand at some tricks working or not.

I think there would be a massive difference in seeing an illusionist doing a trick and a magician doing it "for real", if they actually are able to do so.

 

[Xenophon]

"Getting by" in this economy is already good enough.If one can do that with magic then they don't have much to worry about.

Although being able to be safely on the "above getting by" is always preferable.



I don't need magic for that.


This one would never be a credible proof because of the many ways we already have to make things float on air(be through trickery or science).



I don't know if a magician able to conjure lightning with their hands would surpass someone with a gun...

But it's certainly it the type of magician people first think of when they imagine one.



Most illusionists nowadays seem to depend a lot on the props they use rather than just on their skill, angles/positioning also play a hand at some tricks working or not.

I think there would be a massive difference in seeing an illusionist doing a trick and a magician doing it "for real", if they actually are able to do so.

Could be, but in what would the massive difference consist? I recall claims that when the stage magician "walked through" the Great Wall about 20 years back, there were claims that microphones actually heard him "moving inside" the Wall.