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Originally Posted by kato13
I am trying to come up with some type of generic pricing for equipment and I was wondering if Morrow Project version 4 had any base unit of cost.
Currently I am thinking of using the "gold grams" system that was in Twilight 2013, but if Morrow uses something else I might use that.
Any thoughts or comments on base commerce units in other systems would also be welcome.
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From the section on economics ......... the base unit is "One Hour Labor"...
So whether it is the KFS, the Lonestar Republic, or Chicago........
Whatever can be exchanged for one hour of labor.
So it is all barter. Gold and Silver make some sense. Just like economics today, there has to be something that can represent not just one hour, but 1000 or 10,000 hours of labor.
Do I think it is common in any of these societies? No, not at all. I think in this apocalyptic setting people are trading for what they need right now. Few have the resources or have made the kinds of finds, that equate to more than a few hours at best. It takes whole communities and thousands of hours of labor just to feed themselves.
However, the leadership at the community level needs something to trade with the leadership of another community that can be agreed upon.
Gold, Silver do that. If traded by weight and purity.