economics
A longer-than-fits-in-the-margin response to a comment on the last post: How do you make money, the symbol of exchange-value, properly match the actuality of exchange-value? Have a fully backed currency (eg gold) and do really nasty things to anyone who so much as thinks of the possibility of maybe theoretically
trope-a-day
Worthless Yellow Rocks: Oh, yeah. Starting with gold itself, whose rarity went the way of the dodo shortly after asteroid mining was developed, and whose price is of a similar order to Earth’s prices for iron, if not actually less. (Which is to say, if it didn’t wear
worldbuilding
So, some thoughts to answer a comment I received a while back on a Trope-a-Day: Hmm, so the Libertarian Spess Elves have a fiat currency. That’s interesting to learn and I’m curious to find out some more about how that came about down the line. Well, first, it’