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On Tue, 2/24/15, Anthony Jackson <ajackson@iii.com> wrote:

 Subject: RE: [TML] T5 Rules question
 To: "tml@simplelists.com" <tml@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 6:27 PM

 From: Bruce Johnson
 > The absurdity is not that high-TL items
 are cheaper, it’s that there’s a market for those
 inferior low-TL items at those
 >
 prices.

 Well, there's
 always the option of handling the production advantages of
 higher tech levels with a huge increase in GDP rather than
 making items cheaper. Realistically, that's the way a
 lot of mature technologies work, the low tech version
 persists because the high tech labor is so much more
 expensive than the low tech labor that the higher
 productivity of the high tech methods doesn't make up
 for the difference.

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The vision of an entire 'sweatshop' system just flashed before my eyes!

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