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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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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i feel like you’re actually tunneling under something that’s just bad about fiction
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them’s fightin’ words. say more
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Hard agree.
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this is related to the eternal question "where are the bathrooms on the Enterprise" and why the most revolutionary moment in Star Wars was when they got stuck in the trash compactor
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Have a superhero game where ppl who took the "inventor" power got to create one invention that had to change the world, and one guy made a "Saturday night special ray gun" that was super cheap and so easy to build you can't stop them, leveling the difference between super/normie.
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running an authentic tyranny in dnd with some types of americans is funny because they legit do not understand genuine abuse of power and corruption.
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big mac: steel penny coin w/ crypto barcode on the rim pistol: locate your nearest gunsmith and negotiate/barter a price before interfacing mechanical wallets house: locate underused tunnel. clear roach-dogs with the pistol. weld plate over the entrance and hope for the best
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