Converting Credits to Dollars is a comparison technique. Since the Credit was officially pegged at the 1977 US dollar (see designer's notes), using the current dollar with inflation corrections (taken from an economics website, BTW) provides a range of value that the modern person can in fact grasp, since they can compare to current prices.
As for Mongoose: the actual costs to ship, presuming a 1/240th purchase price setaside for replacement (or as monthly payment) for a 1 parsec trip is in fact higher than the cost of said ticket... by over Cr1000 in most cases. In other words, at book rates, MGT should result in absolutely no passages, as ships lose more by fitting staterooms than the cargo space would bring in carrying freight, let alone speculative cargo.
see Fixing the Economics for the details of my analysis. I don't use the term "Badly Broken" often; that does, however, hit it squarely.
And as for that retiree of KCr22... he's paying 12x1500=Cr18000 at soc 7 for himself, leaving KCr4 for other expenses. He can afford no more than one parsec round trip per year at book prices, but, as noted, no ship should be taking passengers at those prices, because it's not cost effective... and if he's soc 8 or 9, he's LOSING KCr2 per year.
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