by Fostik » Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:26 am loleznub wrote:imagine 'bartering' a token for 100 lead coins (aka q10 lead bar)
kek
Just a kindly reminder, your money are made out of paper and plastic in best case, in worst case it's digital data, electrons captured in floating gate transistor.
Reiber wrote:
"Oh no!. you cant just put the 80 blueberrys in the barterstand and get the axe. you have to first exchange them for 35 schmekels , and then buy the cheapest axe (q50) for 28 schmekels, or save up for the Good (q134) axe for 253 schmekels (from a village that would otherwhise throw away axes <q200)"
-litterally just you and mobile game companys.
so because you dont want to get taxed and ripped off by bigger markets, you decide to tax and rip off spuces. who then have worthless coins laying around, unless they wanna get ripped of by you again, great strategem.
And you're exactly making the right point - with coins you can sell stuff, save coins and spend them later or for other goods. Having barter as the only viable trading way exactly leads for ripping off spruces for tokens (because it's not physically possible to collect goods listed in most trading threads for their prices), while on markets with coin you can sell stuff to one trader, and buy from other.
