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Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


Orange Crush Rush posted:

trying to imagine what a stock market for Velen of all loving places would look like, and I gotta say I am coming up blank

Peasants trading different kinds of thin soups

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Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Got a lump of bread today!*

*Stock market crashes.

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

Ainsley McTree posted:

Peasants trading different kinds of thin soups

The "stock" market

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Trading big on my unspecified creature bone futures

isk
Oct 3, 2007

You don't want me owing you
The most trusted name in wealth management: Marrow Lynch

Parallelwoody
Apr 10, 2008


Mulaney Power Move posted:

The "stock" market

Splorange
Feb 23, 2011

Orange Crush Rush posted:

trying to imagine what a stock market for Velen of all loving places would look like, and I gotta say I am coming up blank

You'd have merchants pooling resources into ships and shipments or betting for or against voyage success. There's a ton of interesting irl historical poo poo you could do. It's been so loving long, but I'm fairly sure there hasn't been any allusion to a trading company in any of the Witchers?

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Novigrad is basically an Italian city state like Venice or Florence so it's set basically right before the big trading companies like the East India Company started to get going. Basically Djikstra is trying to speed run the historical process that saw first the Italians, then the Dutch, and finally the British develop and implement capitalism.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
Looks like I made the right choice in Reason of State

Fortaleza
Feb 21, 2008

Novigrad is basically Danzig. Even has that giant port crane to drive the comparison home

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

i used the word basically 3 times in 2 sentences i should be shot. why did i post immediately after waking up

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


Splorange posted:

You'd have merchants pooling resources into ships and shipments or betting for or against voyage success. There's a ton of interesting irl historical poo poo you could do. It's been so loving long, but I'm fairly sure there hasn't been any allusion to a trading company in any of the Witchers?

Well there is the spice trader Emhyr var Emreis in 2

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Ainsley McTree posted:

Well there is the spice trader Emhyr var Emreis in 2

A trader?

In spices.

Right...

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Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Ainsley McTree posted:

Well there is the spice trader Emhyr var Emreis in 2

A trader eh?

Efb

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