Timeline for The Emperor's New Palace
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| Oct 1, 2020 at 1:47 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | @Mad Physicist A real-life scenario would be the Debeers hold on the diamond industry. I am not sure if Asimov would have been aware of their empire, since he was 32 when the series was written, but it is possible. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 18:30 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | @JustinThymetheSecond. Asimov's book The Currents of Space has a similar idea. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 18:26 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | Each planet supplies him with a couple of tilse of their costliest stuff. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 14:14 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | Salt used to be extremely expensive when the only source was to desalinate ocean water. Then they found huge salt mines with almost unlimited salt deposits. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 7:41 | comment | added | Trioxidane | it might also raise the price, as it's less available/has higher demand. For the price, availability is more important than amount in existence. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 6:22 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |