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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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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The world is not here for you to find it credible Mr. Robot
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I look forward to the next Star Wars movie, "Rey Buys A House"
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they had to barter for slaves in episode 1 that was illuminating
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Got any good examples of authors/books that did a great job at this?
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the dispossessed was fantastic here one of my favorite books about speculative political economy
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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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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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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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