The author overdid the poverty porn. The world population has dwindled to 500 million and humanity can still afford to have gangs that kidnap and kill people. Electricity, water and internet are free but a family of 5 where 2 are engineers who work 20 hours a day cannot afford food. 200 creds can feed a person for a month, which comes out to 2-3 creds a meal. His family can't afford it while at the same time giving him 1 million creds for tuition. There's no scholarship, student loan, payment installments - the whole fee is paid at once. Humanity can afford to waste the talent of the vast majority of people. Don't know how they haven't gone extinct yet.
Arrkein
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LIKEIt's clear the author has no clue about the economy. 2 malnourished teens who have never fought before and only exercised for 3 days can somehow gain millions of coins and tens of skill books (each of which would sell for millions of coins) in a few real world hours at the start of the game and somehow the exchange rate is supposed to be 1 coin to 100 creds.