"what is it like for my character to try to buy a big mac. how about a house. perhaps a pistol" work through such scenarios and you will accomplish alot in terms of thinking through how the society works
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i dont find it credible for an author to write thousands of pages about a group of characters over years of their lives without them engaging in mundane considerations related to buying and selling normal stuff and earning money
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one thing I enjoyed about morlocks 1st book is that in the early chapters he has a guy thinking through how to finance his business, and a tourist being mad about a fatality resulting from an equipment rental learned alot about lunar society from thishttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1430157091759603720?s=19 …
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le guin is not someone I likely agreed much with about lots of things but her consideration of what it would mean to have an anarchosocialist society was genuinely inspired. she didnt pull punches even though you can tell she sort of wanted it to workhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1430159014147485700?s=19 …
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Rothfuss attacked
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Finally someone says it
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I mean, that depends. Unless the point of the entire shebang is economical somehow you can more or less glob it into a vague economy with a hat or two, kind of like "how does FTL work" is quite irrelevant to Alien
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There are books after books where that is central. Can't drop in too close to gravity well, different FTL speeds, need to establish infrastructure for incoming jumps, small chance of critical failure and etc. Come to think of it I can't think of anything scifi that ignores FTL.
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But Gondor’s agricultural policy was sufficiently progressive without NGO advice and fertilizer development?
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They say Aragorn was a “wise king” but how did he handle opium poppy production and incentivizing his farmers to grow corn for ethanol?
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