> On Apr 28, 2020, at 1:05 AM, Rupert Boleyn
> <xxxxxx@gmail.com<mailto:xxxxxx@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Leading to my Rule of Traveller Cargo: Extrapolating Imperial Commerce
> Levels from the rules for a Free Trader is akin to modeling world container
> ship traffic by analyzing cross-Indian ocean dhow traffic.
> (snip)

Somewhere, I once expanded on your phrase with a modern analogy -
modeling corporate shipping from the basic trade rules is equivalent
to trying to understand Amazon using a model based on two flea market
speculators with an RV and a 20' UHaul...