Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-14138255-20160304174935

73.Anon.52 wrote:

SketchyOpus wrote:

Sentry 616 wrote: Where would they get the money? This is one of my main minor gripes with RWBY -- there's been no real show of needing or spending money besides Weiss and Pyrrha with charge cards at the noodle stand. No one has a job that we know of;  outside of Weiss being uber rich, no one can be labeled as rich-poor-middle and the school presumably pays for the basics (we don't even know if tuition, etc. is involved), but how do students pay for the rest?

But to answer your question, I can only assume they have their own ways of obtaining money, be it trust fund, stipend, money from relatives, PT job, etc. If only because money has never been an issue for anyone before.

Plus, they've been planning this journey for a while. Long enough to either work or save up or beg money from someone. I can't imagine they'd sit on their asses, waiting for Ruby to heal, and not save and plan for such an important trip. Actually, the most likely answer to all of this is that they are Huntsman.

This field of work is nigh impossible to quantify in terms of real-world economics, they cannot prove what they do(like big game hunters of old), and essentially come close enough to guards in what they do, while being 100% indispensable at both the highest and lowest levels of society.

They are probably paid for any mission(like escorting a vessel), while most expenses like food are only not covered as far as eating what they want(as opposed to whatever is provided through normal channels for free as part of work).

The only real question is whether the Remnant version of the stock markets or Vale's treasury went down with the CTT. I'd imagine air transport is cheaper due to water transport being more hazardous, but now air travel is just as dangerous with the Grimm attacks.

As for pay, they must be waived off as huntsmen, but yeah it is hard to know how they could possibly get money. We could look to comics, where the heroes don't have to pay most of the time, but fuck comics. Instead it could be anime, where they could be heroes but the shopkeep could still be like "eh, you want passage you gotta pay for it" and the heroes have to pay him by helping him out first.