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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

    if you write some kind of speculative fiction and want to portray a tyranny but kind of skimp on describing its economy apart from gesturing that some people have money and others dont i rather disrespect your worldbuilding hayekian infohazard sorry this might ruin a book or two

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      2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

        "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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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

        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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      4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

        eigenrobot Retweeted ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs

        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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        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
        2/ and economics is nothing more than caloric flows with tokens and counters and side contracts this is why when I write SF novels they have big side threads on stock shares, bonds, REITs, etc. positing a lunar revolution without a plausible funding model is just embarrassing pic.twitter.com/Ywad74wc5H
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      5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

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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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        Replying to @bschne
        the dispossessed was fantastic here one of my favorite books about speculative political economy
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      1. Trunk‏ @poena_cullei Aug 24
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        Rothfuss attacked

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      1.  🦗New Free Soil Party‏ @FreeSoilAndrew Aug 24
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        Finally someone says it

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      2. New_OKɴᴀᴏᴍɪ (heiress ᵒᶠ ᴏᴋᵘˡᵗʳᵃ ᵖʳᵒʲᵉᶜᵗ)‏ @0knaomi Aug 24
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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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      3. DreadIlk‏ @DreadIlk Aug 24
        Replying to @0knaomi @eigenrobot

        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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      2. Aidan Finley‏ @afinley Aug 24
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        But Gondor’s agricultural policy was sufficiently progressive without NGO advice and fertilizer development?

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      3. Aidan Finley‏ @afinley Aug 24
        Replying to @afinley @eigenrobot

        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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