A universal monetary unit

[flykiller]

For example: I could buy Idaho grown potatoes for $4 a bag... but I can buy fresher Alaska Grown potatoes for $5 a bag. Or spend $5 in gas to buy them for $4/bag at the farm.

walmart is modeled on a different view. everyone hates walmart, mostly for their success ....

Unless planet A is very careful about allowing anyone to get their hands on those animals. RE: Japan and Kobe beef...

that just makes for a more interesting adventure.

Planet A might even go so far as to cut off those who did succeed in stealing an animal or two from any trade and threatening other planets who might buy from the thief.

can they?

At some point, you don't really need better performance.

I can't see that dynamic applying to anagathics. everyone will always want MMMMOOOOAAAARRRRR!

("I am dying, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore ....")

A lot of people go with the adage, "you get what you pay for."

yeah. but most people go with "how much money is in my wallet?" thus walmart.

 

[kilemall]

economics. if a tech 10 agricultural world can make widgets at 10Cr ea, but a nearby tech 8 industrialized world can make those same widgets for 4Cr ea and ship them for 1Cr ea, then guess who sells the widgets and who buys the widgets?

now if planet A has a monopoly on anagathic animals and sells anagathics for a gazillion Cr/dose, then planets B->Z are going to try to get some of those animals and breed them locally and they'll spend a bazillion Cr each to do it. given the traveller setting one may easily foresee success.

after a rollicking good player character adventure finding and kidnapping some anagathic animals, of course. I sense an adventure seed here somewhere ....

In both examples the animals WERE stolen in the stories.

Spoiler:

The sheep off Norstrilia grew up to be happy healthy non-stroon producing boondoggles, and the Dune worms never did well off planet, not enough to create spice anyway.

Ultimately there is an artificial spice made in the later stories, but it's not as good as the real thing, and the worms are mutated to be tougher so they can be planted on other worlds, turning them to desert, and apparently a seaworm version is made too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norstrilia#Setting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_%28Dune%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(Dune)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(Dune)

 

[flykiller]

In both examples the animals WERE stolen in the stories.

heh, I can just see that.

"go capture that worm, I'll pay you 1 trillion credits."

"capture that?"

"yeah."

"RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW" says the worm.

"I'm outta here."

 

[SanDragon]

yeah. but most people go with "how much money is in my wallet?" thus walmart.

And how much Sanity I have left.