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Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk
The problem with the lawyer analogy is that it isn't the correct scale. It is effectively saying, "one or two people go to law school and upon gaining the required education wrap up all legal cases currently in the system over the course of the next year."
Steel is a popular metal today (and historically) because so much can be done with it with relatively minute alterations of it's composition and manufacturing process, in addition to it's relative low cost. If those conditions arise in a medieval economy via Earth to Stone, the ripple effects will probably look a lot like the early effects of the industrial revolution, especially if magic can also provide a power source to replace horses (like the steam engine did).
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Why would they? They presuppose more than one or two individuals with a rare advantage deciding to spend years mastering a particular spell. And unlike technology, once the metal is created, to continually get more metal requires other mages to follow in their footsteps. Convince me that's likely.