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well......their dicks simply harder than diamonds

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"Let's beat the crap out of the kingdom's main source of income!"

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That first text bubble really sets a hell of a tone.

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fucking a pussy that produces diamonds seems like a good way to get your penis cut

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i'm glad that this comic addresses the obvious problems with inflation that come with diamonds and sapphires being as easy to come by as pussy juice and tears

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They weren't very good economists

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And this is why the public has no (direct) input whatsoever when it comes to monetary policy.

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What!? No rubies!? Are those only reserved for Rozalie?

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Looks like Inoue Kiyoshirou.

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That's inflation for you...

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Goddamned Fed fucked up again.

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Economics in hentai? What? Damn it I came here to fap, not to learn about inflation and surplus!

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Clearly the princess was the only intelligent one. She understood that creating a surplus of jewels would cause them to devalue and chose not to produce more than was absolutely necessary.

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As I understand jewels like sapphires and diamonds are almost nothing compared to silver and gold so it's not that amazing for income, probably less so if it comes from a women's tears and other juices.
Then they defile they're only source of income, the princess was too smart for this village of idiots.

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This is quite the allegory to how some economies of our world have failed and are failing right now.

At first, the kingdom appears to have a monarchy ruling it, but do not be fooled.
It can be said that it is actually the nobles that decide much of the fate of the country and hold the real power.
For one to be noble will most likely indicate a large amount of wealth amassed and that means influence.
This happens to be the case in many modern societies to this day in which the wealthy has gained control of the government.
Much like how the nobles in the story seized control from the ruler's death and set up Prince Velvet as their puppet.
Unfortunately the wealthy are more concerned about increasing/securing wealth rather than the lives of the citizens.
In fact, the kingdom is already prospering as indicated on the first page yet the nobles still wish to increase their wealth.
The princess of the story represents the citizens of a modern society and the nobles represent the banks of mentioned society.

Banks offer loans to the people that are very enticing and tell the people how great loans are like free money.
The more loans that are given, means more wealth goes into the banks.
However, a bubble can form from this and once it pops, the economy tanks.
The response then is to pump the economy with more currency which is essentially inflation.
The currency is devalued and in the worst case, becomes worthless.
Compare to the nobles injecting the princess with a drug that would forcibly stimulate more precious stones.
The nobles could have created a plot centered around these gems which tanked the economy much like the bank loans.
They would propagate more gems in the plot to increase their own wealth until the gems became worthless from inflation.

The citizens are beaten by the banks and the princess is beaten by the nobles.
The society and kingdom suffers as the banks and nobles flee the burning wreckage they have wrought.

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the art looks kinda like ShindoL.

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@louped It's not the same actually. The real estate bubble caused by the banks only happened from lack of government regulations from the Bush administration. It has nothing to do with citizen to bank relationships and wealthy people benefiting. In fact, most of the wealthy people(as well as banks) that benefited bit the dust, hard. As I had friends that were real estate making millions, then nothing. This has more to do with supply and demand economics. If anything, the De Beer family's exploitation of africa is a more fitting example, take a common resource, have a monopoly on it, then sell it at a premium and as a premium product. Advertise it as rare because you have all if not most of the diamonds in the world.

Note: The reason inflation happens is to increase spending. The more dollars(currency) you have, the less it means to you and the more likely you are to spend it. But this story inflation is just to create more currency cause the nobles are dumb(they don't understand value of currency), not because of a bubble that is about to burst.

In this case, inflation made their trade value as a nation worthless and therefore not worth it as an ally or economic partnership. Therefore the nation's products are the only thing worth trading and it's hard to place a value on a product without a strong currency. It would be the equivalent of America trying to buy chinese products with pebbles that are more common than dirt. The chinese find america worthless, then Call of Duty China where China.

But really, can you imagine how hard it would be to determine how many bananas for one basket of strawberries? It would change and fluctuate so much between sellers that often times people would just get cheated and lose money, the economy would die for the country FORCED to trade with products rather than currency. They would also avoid your currency like the plague because the damage to your economy would spread to theirs. It's possible all trade might stop.

You should see maoyuu maou yuusha or take an economy class. :D Then you'd know that economies don't "fail" unless the country is dead. Economies have cycles, at least capitalism economies. There are always ups and downs due to the fluctuations of supply and demand and to assume or say that we are failing right now or have failed is to not understand how Economics works.

Last edited on 01 May 2015, 09:21.

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@ mac77

By 21st century standards, sure.
By medieval standards, nope.

Gold and silver were valued/produced income because they were rare "enough" (depending on the area/era) and they could be reforged/reused.

By comparison, jewels were/are TOO rare to be used as currency/valued/to produce income AND they couldn't be reforged/reused. Could you imagine if you had to get a mineralogy degree just to figure out how much money you had? Now imagine how absurd that would be for a medieval merchant or farmer:

Farmer : "I want to sell 2 cows, 3 chickens and 4 goats."
Merchant : "I'll pay you 2 lapis lazulis, 1 ruby and 3 diamonds for it all."
Farmer : "WTF?"

Now if you had a princess that could produce jewels by crying and whatnot, well... Problem solved. (1 diamond = 1 "dollar", 1 ruby = 5 "dollars", 1 lapis lazuli = 10 "dollars") After that its just a matter of managing production (ie. inflation/deflation)... Which is what the ending of this story is about. Set the jewel production machine to overdrive and then run it 24/7 to make the economy implode. (What good is a billion "dollars" if you can't even buy a loaf a bread with it?)

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they're a bunch of idiots, economic value of precious material relies on it's scarcity, proving abundance will drive it's price down by a lot.
on the other hand, if they had given said precious materials another purpose it'll drive the demand high, e.g. increased in steel demand due to sky scrapers.

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The over production of gems would actually not be a problem if they were both evil AND smart. Like the real diamond industry.

Seriously- diamonds aren't that rare. At least, not after modern geology techniques and the opening of diamond mines in Africa (at least when compared to the relative scarcity of europe to much of asia). The diamon industry knows this...and hides the actual number of diamonds by hiding them away.

Stockpile and hide the fact that you have produced that many (diamond producers have a lot of trouble with antitrust laws since this is price fixing; in our story, it would be other countries learning that they can grab the stock pile). That will stop the market from bottoming out. It allows you to determine exactly how much to sell.

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Economics lesson on e-hentai. I didn't expect that.

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Should be tagged for "inflation." ;)

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Diamonds and sapphires don't have much value outside of their rarity and prettiness, if you flood the market with them like hentai related they will become more worthless than a cabbage because atleast a cabbage can feed you plus they're more uncommon.

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came here for hentai, got an economy lesson.

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Diamonds are used in drill tips, but yeah they're pretty useless otherwise.

So was gold in the pre-modern era though.

Scarcity determines value, not utility.

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So this is the Spice and Wolf of H manga.

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@BlueDye: The real estate bubble caused by the banks only happened from lack of government regulations from the Bush administration.

The Bush administration (and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan) warned people that a Fannie Mae collapse could destroy the U.S. economy. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were Government Sponsored Enterprises, independent corporations, but wholly owned by the U.S. Government.

Barney Frank (D-MA) said, infamously, "I do think I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and [Office of Thrift Supervision]. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing." — U.S. Representative Barney Frank, September 25, 2003

The Federal Reserve had no power to audit Fannie Mae, that power belonged to other Executive institutions, "independent" ones (like the FCC). That changed, by Congressional action, after 2006.

You should see maoyuu maou yuusha or take an economy class.

Yes, you should. Here is Arnold Kling, a Libertarian economist who spent a number of years working for Freddie Mac, the younger and (much) smaller twin of Fannie Mae:

https://mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/PDF_Testimony_Arnold%20Kling_%20Fannie%20Freddie%20Hearing_%20House%20Govt%20Reform_081208.pdf

It has nothing to do with citizen to bank relationships and wealthy people benefiting.

Au contraire:

>Also, the regulation of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae appears to me to have been emasculated, in large part due to the combination of heavy-handed lobbying by the two firms and Congressional meddling with the regulatory process. ― AK

Note: The reason inflation happens is to increase spending.

Wrong. Inflation only happens when the money supply increases. Whether you spend like mad or save like mad has nothing to do with inflation. (Yes, when governments spend like mad, you tend to have inflation, but the spending has no direct effect; rather, you get inflation when spending-map govts refuse either taxing enough to cover the spending, or paying the sky-high interest rates to borrow that money.

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Inflation is a bitch huh

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