Timeline for What resources would space traders trade, assuming a gate network but no other FTL exists?
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| Aug 13, 2020 at 6:03 | comment | added | mart | wormholes will phsically integrate manufacturing, just like intermodal shipping physically integrated manufcturing. It's nowhere waid that the ownership structures also need to integrated. I'm not saying there's no trade, I'm saying there's no trade between stellar systems | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 17:45 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | Manufacturers aren't generally in the business of mining their own raw materials, and energy-hungry industries don't usually have their own power plants. I fail to see why wormholes would suddenly vertically integrate every industry to the point where trade became unnecessary. You're suggesting that no one will trade space bananas because... everyone has their own space banana plantation that they can easily visit? Just because resources are effectively physically nearby doesn't mean they're not owned by different people. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 13:18 | history | answered | mart | CC BY-SA 4.0 |