Economy
King Midas was inspired by a real monarch
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While the tragic curse of turning your own daughter into solid gold is obvious folklore, the core inspiration was an actual eighth-century monarch of Phrygia. He ruled over incredibly fertile lands overflowing with natural resources and massive metal deposits, making him so remarkably affluent that jealous neighbors literally invented magical fables to explain his massive bank account.
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