#trading for commodities

[ahb-writes]

Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions (Trade, Commerce, and Industry)

Trade, Commerce, and Industry Worldbuilding Questions:

What is the primary currency in this world? Does each region have its own?

What is the standard (such as the gold standard) by which currency is valued?

Who has more relative trading power and why? Which commodities are valued the most?

Who is paid the most because their labor is valued highest? Who is paid the least? Or is labor compensated equally (and do pay grades vary by region)?

Where are the biggest centers of trade and industry? Why are they in these locations?

Where are the main trading routes and what are landmarks or places of interest along their way?

When was this world most or least prosperous, and why?

When business is conducted, what are the customs, signs of trust (like signatures on Earth), formalities?

Why is a specific trade more common than others (what context underpins it)?

Why are certain trades growing or waning in popularity?

❯ ❯ ❯ Read other writing masterposts in this series: Worldbuilding Questions for Deeper Settings

[fates-theysband]

mysims fixation coming back means i’m thinking about jenny again. canon self shipper queen.

[ferdifz]

Ea-Nasir is "back"...

Hey guys, remember the ancient Mesopotamian low-quality copper bamboozler Ea-Nasir? Guess what: he seems to be "back"...

...To be fair though: This particular embezzlement crime actually happened in 2021: [mining.com] Not this year (2024).

(Using a news-link from mining dot com, because the original Bloomberg dot com article is behind a pay-wall.)

Still hillarious though, in my opinion. And the Ea Nasir joke continues to be evergreen. At least among Tumblr deep-lore enthusiasts and fans of ancient world/mediterranean/levant history.

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Some more choice memes I've collected recently, related to Ea Nasir:

A reply, over from Bluesky:

Ea-nāṣir jokes are like high-quality copper ingots. Not everybody gets them.

Not mine; this next one neither:

Obligatory "Palpatine is back" remix:

The Simpsons predicted this, of course:

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Caught by the captains of the East India Company:

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Randal Munroe/XKCD Comics remembers Ea-Nasir, of course...

The Tumblr merch shop [shop.tumblr.com] has been under maintenance and reconstruction for several months now, but the (current? former?) head of Tumblr merch still has his Tumblr blog up and has a nice quick-briefing of the Ea-Nasir meme on Tumblr....

In 1953, explorer Sir Leonard Woolley discovered and acquired the tablet from what is believed to be the ruins of Ea-Nasir's home while on an expedition to the city of Ur. Several other similar tablets complaining about poor copper quality were also recovered, suggesting Ea-Nasir frequently sent his customers poor-quality goods. The tablet is currently held at the British Museum.

[skalidris]

trying to read empire of cotton for the analysis of capitalism but the textile history parts are truly so often noticeably false/dubious

[boltvolta]

Why the hell is there Vietnamese Colgate in an Ocean State Job Lot. What economics are they pulling to get this shit over here and turn a profit. Whatever, another New England dub I guess?

[jigeuminunbich]

challenge for myself: if i don’t finish dog days by the 30th i’m dropping the 3k word jaehyun smut in my vault

[thoughtportal]

France and Africa

[treasure-goblin]

Woag, big brain happenings today

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[st-just]

The history of it more or less makes sense as a patronage engine and there are definitely worse alternatives, but the sheer number of places in American government where there's this gentleman's agreement that each party gets X seats on the body and then the swing vote is a political appointee who changes with the administration is just somewhere between comedic and bleak.

Real 'world's only two-party one party state' energy.

[jurph]

Tell Ea-Nasir that Nanni sends the following message. When you came, you said to me as follows : “I will give J.P. Morgan (when he comes) fine quality nickel ingots.”

In commodity futures trading, the joke is that if you let your futures contract expire you have to take delivery of e.g. 17 tons of pork bellies or orange juice concentrate or whatever. But actually to prevent this absurdity from ever taking place, there are warehouses full of stuff that just get credited to whichever trader happens to have let a contract expire, and then when they like, they can sell the warehouse, and it's purchased (usually by someone else letting a futures contract expire).

So the London Metals Exchange owns several such warehouses and people from all over the world do business with them, letting these warehouses change hands. J.P. Morgan & Chase Co. apparently held several warehouses of nickel for years without anyone looking too closely... and recently had several million dollars of contracts voided because the warehouses full of nickel turned out to contain at least some fraction of -- and I am not joking here -- bags of rocks.

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[hyrules-warrior]

Can openers must be worth more then just about anything else in this world. Like guns/knives, medical supplies, can openers in that order.

[pellinni-photo]

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