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Quibbles:  Revenue != profit.  Cash flow != profit (possibly also != revenue, but I haven't studied accounting).

With no tax incentive, I would expect charitable donations to decrease.  I'm not sure how you would replace that with a new incentive.  I'm not sure how your subsidy idea would work.  Would the government donate an additional X dollars for every Y donated?  Instead of subsidies, should government programs make up for lost donations by performing the same functions as [insert charity here]?

As for the non-monetary assets bit, I can't remember what the hell I meant.  I've slept since then.  Something along the lines of capital gains maybe?

Key point:  It's not necessarily clear what constitutes "making money".  Should operating expenses be tax deductible i.e. should we tax revenue even if a business is breaking even, thus causing it to lose money -> shrink (lost jobs) -> potentially fail (more lost jobs)?  And what about inflation?  If a business runs at a nominal profit but breaks even or loses real value due to inflation, should we tax that "profit"?

Hmm.  Do we need to define "charity" to distinguish it from the more general "nonprofit organization", or does it matter?

This is the 21 century.

We have police officers with guns for that.

Because police are omnipresent, incorruptible, fearless, and always carry guns.

Are the lyrics the same in the heavy metal version?

No.

Apprenticeship is hardly relevant in the developed world.  There are very few craftsmen to apprentice under.  There are vocational schools for some fields.  Most others require only basic skills (why hello there, public education) plus specific job training that lasts days or weeks rather than years as with apprenticeship.  Some other fields require varying degrees of advanced (read:  university) education.

The education system we have is a better fit for its environment than apprenticeship.  If it wasn't, we'd still have the latter.

Ah, but the thread is Things Every Game Should Have / Do. Not every RPG.

This handsome gentleman agrees.

Reason I limit the vanish to 1 or 2 turns, I have to either find a good time to ping my target and be able to run away, or change dances that may help me further with getting a target. Dances can only do so much damage. It does help doing the dance that reduces their defenses, but that gets time consuming. Hoping for Toad or Stop is usually the preferred method.

I suppose making a dancer/monk is also a good tactic to use, since they'd pulverize their target bare-fisted or use Chakra to heal up. Now that I recall, maybe I used that combo when I used the dancer; but it was her default class/build I assigned until endgame.

I mean, by endgame, I always had a master calculator (which was also a dark knight), a dancer and a bard. The remainder were getting better in their fields. Mostly close-combat or training to be lesser calculators (with at least 1 as an orator to rob random troops of their equipment, and then throwing them naked into the fields).

Interesting.  I never tried a dancer or calculator, and only used a bard (and the various mages, to be honest) for the sake of mastering everything with Ramza (also some few useful secondary skills).  I never got around to mastering all jobs with anyone but Ramza.  My preferred team was always Orlandu + Agrias + some combination of monks, ninja, samurai, and other special characters (Beowulf and Mustadio are fun).  Brute force ftw.

Some of the harder battles (mostly early on) would be easier with other classes, I'm sure, but once Ramza has his best abilities (first Yell, later Scream) the once-tough battles become "Ramza charges his lazer while everyone else runs around like a ninny.  Then he destroys everything."  The only consistently hard battle later on is against Elmdore's assassins, but only because that 100% kill ability has very few defenses, one of which is female-only (ribbon).

Favorite secondary ability combo:  The one that soaks damage with MP plus the one that recovers MP when you walk.  If your MP is nonzero you can soak one full attack.