We at Illwinter are thouroughly socialist and believe in health insurances
. If your old granpa becomes old, crippled and addled in his brains he should still get enough public funding to be able to live as comfortably as when he was actively researching for the good of the nation. Imagine how few mages you would get to work for you if your neighbouring nation had a better pension system than you. After all most mages are old to begin with. Brain drain