Arafoo Otoko no Isekai Tsuhan Seikatsu - Vol. 1 Ch. 3

[MangaDex]

 

[definitionofinsanity]

"I need a safe place, electronics, comfort!"

According to the first chapter, for whatever reason, he can buy even used cars... Why not buy a used RV and some solar panels and batteries? Even if you can't buy fuel with it (which seems doubtful), a parked RV is still fine to live out of and could be dragged by a beast of burden if absolutely necessary if you put the thing in neutral.

And so long as you aren't driving it around, none of the locals are going to see it and immediately think, "SORCERY! A MOVING CARRIAGE HOME!" They'll just think it's a strange little house. Cover it with netting to hide it, even, if you want.

 

[xXPenisXx]

The best investments he could possibly make are a scale model/replica Gutenberg movable-type printing press and books on important early modern (like Enlightenment era) topics like metallurgy, medicine, and chemistry. If Shangri-la has an ebay-style used goods section he could buy a used and working scale model of the Gutenberg press for like 200-400 dollars. You can actually buy a working scaled replica Gutenberg press from a Biblical museum store for $700, but that would be way out of the scope of any ordinary e-commerce site and would be unlikely to be found on Shangri-la. Failing that, he should buy teaching materials like posters, diagrams, and books about the early history of printing presses.

It would be on him to translate the materials, but once he has a translated manuscript for these books he and his business partners would have commercial ownership of the most important founts of knowledge in the known world, and would probably hold that knowledge for at least a decade before someone would figure out how to replicate the press and start mass producing unauthorized copies of the translated texts.

Actually... fuck, if you can buy a prefab log cabin on Shangri-la you can certainly buy a Gutenberg press. Are you shitting me? A whole log cabin? Might as well buy penicillium cultures and replica 1700s microscopes. Fuck, buy a whole Bessemer converter. A log cabin? Jesus.

 

[GridLite]

aww he made his waifu angry lmao

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regardless if he thinks it's a win-win, he should've made the profit ratio of 6:4(6 for mc) and say that he's doing the ratio as a favor or something since he will be seen as a pushover by other merchants regardless of how honest mellow merchantry is

 

[ChiefGamer]

The best investments he could possibly make are a scale model/replica Gutenberg movable-type printing press and books on important early modern (like Enlightenment era) topics like metallurgy, medicine, and chemistry. If Shangri-la has an ebay-style used goods section he could buy a used and working scale model of the Gutenberg press for like 200-400 dollars. You can actually buy a working scaled replica Gutenberg press from a Biblical museum store for $700, but that would be way out of the scope of any ordinary e-commerce site and would be unlikely to be found on Shangri-la. Failing that, he should buy teaching materials like posters, diagrams, and books about the early history of printing presses.

It would be on him to translate the materials, but once he has a translated manuscript for these books he and his business partners would have commercial ownership of the most important founts of knowledge in the known world, and would probably hold that knowledge for at least a decade before someone would figure out how to replicate the press and start mass producing unauthorized copies of the translated texts.

Actually... fuck, if you can buy a prefab log cabin on Shangri-la you can certainly buy a Gutenberg press. Are you shitting me? A whole log cabin? Might as well buy penicillium cultures and replica 1700s microscopes. Fuck, buy a whole Bessemer converter. A log cabin? Jesus.

That's a great idea but don't forget about the nobles. Not only will everything be confiscated but he'll probably be killed. Nobles tried to keep as much knowledge as possible exclusive to themselves even here let alone in this isekai where they have been alluded to being worse.