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On Fri, 6/16/17, Evyn MacDude <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Long Route Merchants
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, June 16, 2017, 3:02 PM

 On Thu,
 Jun 15, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Bruce  Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
 wrote:

 I suspect this kind of thing could well be folded into
 Traveller…and some of it already is; as TL is defined as
 ‘what can be made locally’. Consider a TL-12 grav truck
 manufactured with TL-14 control systems imported from a
 TL-15 world. There

  could a lot of lucrative trade in shipping parts, not whole
 widgets.
 Honestly that is closer to the trade model
 in my head than any other. Especially once infrastructure
 costs are folded into the larger equation.

 There is a healthy trade in
 used Manufacturing lines world wide, where obsolete lines
 are sold to new markets where they can afford the manpower
 to operate them.
 --
 Evyn

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I've read many times that a stolen car is worth more if it is disassembled & sold for parts.

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