Edit - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Rev

1

$\begingroup$ Also, if experience is any guide prices are eventually going to adjust until there is no more economic profit to be made by this trading setup. :'-( $\endgroup$
– Michael
Commented Feb 21, 2023 at 18:18
1

$\begingroup$ @Michael, not quite. The prices will adjust until there is an stable distribution of the benefits between the producers on either side and the merchants. In the end, the combined economic zone of the two worlds produces more total goods by specialization, and likely everybody gets some portion of the added wealth. Some more, some less. $\endgroup$
– o.m.
Commented Feb 21, 2023 at 21:20
$\begingroup$ IIRC, doesn't zero economic profit still mean that a trader in this business would make a profit roughly equivalent to what they would have made investing in the galactic stock market through an index fund? $\endgroup$
– Daniel Schepler
Commented Feb 21, 2023 at 23:20
$\begingroup$ @DanielSchepler yes $\endgroup$
– Michael
Commented Feb 22, 2023 at 3:03

Add a comment |

Correct minor typos or mistakes
Clarify meaning without changing it
Add related resources or links
Always respect the author’s intent
Don’t use edits to reply to the author

create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)
<https://example.com>
[example](https://example.com)
<a href="https://example.com">example</a>
MathJax equations $\sin^2 \theta$

formatting help »
answering help »

MathJax help »