Timeline for What makes trading cities rich?
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| Oct 29, 2018 at 4:48 | history | edited | James | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2016 at 5:39 | comment | added | Schilcote | It might be helpful to look up some "macroeconomics 101" classes on YouTube or the internet in general. Trading creates wealth. Bread is worth more in your stomach than on a market stall. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 5:35 | comment | added | TomTom | It is not because - guess what, simple logic is not "thinking different". | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 1:22 | comment | added | Sqeaky | @Durakken It really is obnoxious. It presumes that all people think the same and that the answer would come easier if people just slowed down or stopped critically analyzing. We should be glad people think differently because it increases diversity of opinions. | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 11:54 | comment | added | Luaan | Just for completness, tariffs were also used in some places, but they weren't important unless you could force the traders to use your particular city. You only had a small margin for tariffs until the traders simply chose another path that ends up being cheaper "thanks" to your intervention. Some places were worth a lot due to making trips cheaper (Istanbul, Suez...), but most trading places were popular exactly because they were free - few laws, taxes and regulations, with good security. | |
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| Jul 28, 2016 at 1:21 | comment | added | Durakken | @thohl Pointing out that someone is thinking too hard is not obnoxious, it's pointing out that the question appears complex so we assume it has to have a complex answer and as a result we dismiss the simple answer that we iikely have already come to and become confused because no complex answer we can think up really fits. Do you think we just have the term phrase "overthinking things" to be obnoxious and it has no other use? | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 18:03 | history | edited | Durakken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | John Dallman | @Krateng: Pretty soon, a significant fraction of the traders are based in the city, and spend much of their income there. They live there because it's convenient for organising their trade, for hearing what's going on, hiring ships, for warehousing goods, and everything else. | |
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| Jul 27, 2016 at 16:13 | comment | added | Durakken | Trading IS the commerce and brings in more. Fees are levied later by the group that controls it or guilds that crop up, because it is recognized that to maintain a city in the best condition various things need to be done and once those things occur that becomes safer and and such which brings in more traders. It's simply a self perpetuating cycle. | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 16:06 | comment | added | Krateng | Yeah, but does the wealth actually come from specifically asking for fees to trade there, or does the trading simply bring commerce to the city (because all the traders rest in the city for a night, buy food, drink, etc)? | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 15:50 | history | answered | Durakken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |