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    1. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

          eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

          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. Ed Rotski‏ @Advanced_COBOL Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          The world is not here for you to find it credible Mr. Robot

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        2. Brendan Berkley‏ @TallBlondeGuy Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          I look forward to the next Star Wars movie, "Rey Buys A House"

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24
          Replying to @TallBlondeGuy

          they had to barter for slaves in episode 1 that was illuminating

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        2. Benjamin Schneider‏ @bschne Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Got any good examples of authors/books that did a great job at this?

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24
          Replying to @bschne

          the dispossessed was fantastic here one of my favorite books about speculative political economy

          3 replies 1 retweet 27 likes
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        1. St. Rev. Dr. Rev II: Revving Intensifies  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          The one time I tried to watch Downton Abbey, it struck me as radical hard SF about an alien hive society, with the befuddled middle-class people who get swept up in it as human explorers

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        2. Duke‏ @OfKimbriki Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          I suspect this is a fish for water problem, most people author and audience alike probably don't think about how money works - at all - and simply take it for granted that how things are is mostly his is always been

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        3. Duke‏ @OfKimbriki Aug 24
          Replying to @OfKimbriki @eigenrobot

          And sometimes they do provide details and reveal his little they know, like in Cyberpunk the NYSE gets nuked (!) and this means stocks become worthless (did the companies vanish?)

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