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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"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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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP2/ 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/Ywad74wc5HShow this thread2 replies 1 retweet 88 likesShow this thread -
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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 enjoyed the book but did reach a point about 2/3 through where I was like "wait. this is just the Amish. she invented the Amish"
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