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Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - Return of the Investment
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>restricts the movement of the free market
It didn't work for the Soviet Union either
>next chapter starts with difficulties finding a replacement for cotton as an export
Exactly
It didn't work for the Soviet Union either
>next chapter starts with difficulties finding a replacement for cotton as an export
Exactly
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Ay, a somewhat different type of isekai. I was just talking about getting to read a isekai with more strategies and chess moves in it with demon and whatnot included. I mean we do like op magic badassary isekai's like the next person but I gotta appreciation this side of things too.
Reminds me of another isekai tho not with monster and demons was/is similar to this (With a FMC lead and otome game turn isekai story, very similar) and I follow that one as well. Now we have 2 somewhat similar isekai's and of both genders.
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P.s Both are beautiful lookin but Queen > princess in many ways.
Reminds me of another isekai tho not with monster and demons was/is similar to this (With a FMC lead and otome game turn isekai story, very similar) and I follow that one as well. Now we have 2 somewhat similar isekai's and of both genders.
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P.s Both are beautiful lookin but Queen > princess in many ways.
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@Nessen It actually makes perfect sense. There's plenty of popular stories with that topic.
One villager has a GREAT idea. He sees that the cost of clothing will go up soon, so to capitalize on it he plants cotton. To further capitalize, he plants cotton not just in the extra space, but rather by removing edible plants. After all, by selling the cotton and then buying food he still makes more money than growing the food.
Only one little issue: every single villager has the exact same idea. And now the kingdom's screwed.
One villager has a GREAT idea. He sees that the cost of clothing will go up soon, so to capitalize on it he plants cotton. To further capitalize, he plants cotton not just in the extra space, but rather by removing edible plants. After all, by selling the cotton and then buying food he still makes more money than growing the food.
Only one little issue: every single villager has the exact same idea. And now the kingdom's screwed.
@Tatherwood That may or may not be true, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that if there's a famine going around (especially if importing food is too costly), then clearly someone isn't planting enough food. This shit doesn't happen overnight. And why is the cost of importing food so high? Does it really have to be that high? Or was that arbitrarily set by the author from the beginning to make the MC look artificially smarter?
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@Nessen The cost of importing food is high because, as I said, "every single villager has the exact same idea". Every Kingdom is at war, the thing about making profits from clothing applies to all. There's shortage of food in EVERY kingdom.
Now, you want to say that's convenient? Sure. As convenient as James Bond having a gadget for every situation, or Batman "being Batman", or every Hollywood movie having cars with doors unlocked and the keys in the solar panel thingy.
Is it lazy writing? Yes. Surprisingly, however, THIS situation makes more sense than the car thing.
Sometimes you just have to roll with it.
Now, you want to say that's convenient? Sure. As convenient as James Bond having a gadget for every situation, or Batman "being Batman", or every Hollywood movie having cars with doors unlocked and the keys in the solar panel thingy.
Is it lazy writing? Yes. Surprisingly, however, THIS situation makes more sense than the car thing.
Sometimes you just have to roll with it.
@Tatherwood That explains absolutely nothing. By your same logic, another country sees that there's a demand for food exports and decides to kick up food production, gradually decreasing the cost of importing food for other countries. Also no, not every kingdom is at war, it was the northern countries who suffered the most from the demon invasion, and since the demons stopped expanding their territory for an unexplained-as-of-yet reason, the kingdoms are in a tenuous peace, with the generic Empire bullying around other countries for reparations. We don't know yet if there's a food shortage in "EVERY kingdom". Again, the main point is that this shit doesn't happen overnight. If you're in any position fit to oversee the imports and exports of mass goods, you can see these changes gradually occurring and generally do something about it before a famine occurs - but it definitely doesn't take a complete stranger from another world to point this out. This speaks more to the level of incompetence of the rulers than anything to do with the MC's intelligence or wisdom.
A sign of lazy writing is when the effect explains the cause. James Bond is a specially-trained super spy->Has a gadget for almost every occasion. The cause explains the effect, as it should under normal laws of causality. In this author's world, the effect is explaining the cause. There is a famine->Therefore everyone in the kingdom MUST be stupid and/or it takes a stranger from another world to ingeniously point out the problem! Another word for it is ad-hoc reasoning. The author is not creating a set-up for the effects, or in this case, famine. We just have to assume (like you are doing) that everyone else is doing something wrong, even though we don't actually see that in the story and are just told it - from the MC's POV, no less. In the case of "cars being unlocked all the time" - the author does not make us assume anything about why the door is coincidentally unlocked. It is up to the us, the audience, to speculate or imagine any number of self-prejudiced reasons for it, which is less jarring.
A sign of lazy writing is when the effect explains the cause. James Bond is a specially-trained super spy->Has a gadget for almost every occasion. The cause explains the effect, as it should under normal laws of causality. In this author's world, the effect is explaining the cause. There is a famine->Therefore everyone in the kingdom MUST be stupid and/or it takes a stranger from another world to ingeniously point out the problem! Another word for it is ad-hoc reasoning. The author is not creating a set-up for the effects, or in this case, famine. We just have to assume (like you are doing) that everyone else is doing something wrong, even though we don't actually see that in the story and are just told it - from the MC's POV, no less. In the case of "cars being unlocked all the time" - the author does not make us assume anything about why the door is coincidentally unlocked. It is up to the us, the audience, to speculate or imagine any number of self-prejudiced reasons for it, which is less jarring.
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@Nessen "Antoher country sees there's demand for food and kicks up food production". You're 100% right.
The MC did. Oh wait, that's "ermahgerd, agricultural revolution". Dude, there has to be a period between things starting to go wrong and people taking action about it. In that period, the one who noticed was the MC. Hey, maybe another kingdom is ALSO doing it, we just haven't heard it yet.
Also, yes, every country is at war, cause those in the backlines are supplying money and equipment to those fighting in the frontlines. The reparations you mention may as well cover clothing...
As for cause-effect...
You say "there is famine, therefore everyone is an idiot". I say "people see profit in clothing, therefore move production to clothing, therefore there's famine". See? Cause->effect.
It all depends on how you look at things. Being a super spy doesn't mean you CAN have every possible gadget you can think of. I can be a super well trained Black Ops 'Murican soldier, but I won't have a drone that turns invisible and infiltrates the target's home to one-shot him... So in your superspy example, I see a clear effect->cause.
Again, it depends on how you look at stuff.
Idk, I don't think you're necessarily completely wrong (in this chapter at least), but I do feel you're going too far with your assumptions and expectations. But well, perspectives.
The MC did. Oh wait, that's "ermahgerd, agricultural revolution". Dude, there has to be a period between things starting to go wrong and people taking action about it. In that period, the one who noticed was the MC. Hey, maybe another kingdom is ALSO doing it, we just haven't heard it yet.
Also, yes, every country is at war, cause those in the backlines are supplying money and equipment to those fighting in the frontlines. The reparations you mention may as well cover clothing...
As for cause-effect...
You say "there is famine, therefore everyone is an idiot". I say "people see profit in clothing, therefore move production to clothing, therefore there's famine". See? Cause->effect.
It all depends on how you look at things. Being a super spy doesn't mean you CAN have every possible gadget you can think of. I can be a super well trained Black Ops 'Murican soldier, but I won't have a drone that turns invisible and infiltrates the target's home to one-shot him... So in your superspy example, I see a clear effect->cause.
Again, it depends on how you look at stuff.
Idk, I don't think you're necessarily completely wrong (in this chapter at least), but I do feel you're going too far with your assumptions and expectations. But well, perspectives.
@Tatherwood People seeing supply and demand in certain goods is fine, but it's not a "revolution" by any stretch of the word. The problem is that the author wants to drop terminology to make the MC look smarter than he actually is. It's not "agriculture revolution" - it's simple economics.
There is a period to notice when things are going wrong and talking about it and then there's letting a famine happen. Famines don't slowly happen (which seems to be the case here) without someone noticing it unless a natural disaster or sabotage occurs. If a famine actually manages to gradually happen, it says more about the incompetence of the rulers than the MC being smart.
Being at war =/= giving supplies. But either way, currently the demons have stopped expanding their territory for some as-of-yet unexplained reason. The countries are currently at a tenuous peace. The country we're currently observing definitely did not face the full brunt or horrors of the war. I'm not repeating this a third time.
"People see profit in clothing, therefore move production to clothing, therefore there's famine" - That's wrong. "There is famine, therefore everyone is an idiot" is actually what YOU and the author are saying. Read the chapter again. We're told there's a famine, and then the author/MC shows us later it's because of people planting too much cotton trees. Before the MC actually goes into the reason why, it could've been x, y, or z. It could've been anything. The author ultimately chooses, "It's because people keep planting too much cotton trees instead of edible crops, and then wondering why they're starving, which is pretty stupid of them". We are chronologically given the effect first, and then any number of causes could be made up later - this is lazy writing to try to cheaply show off how "competent" the MC is, which is a general failing of the isekai genre.
There is a period to notice when things are going wrong and talking about it and then there's letting a famine happen. Famines don't slowly happen (which seems to be the case here) without someone noticing it unless a natural disaster or sabotage occurs. If a famine actually manages to gradually happen, it says more about the incompetence of the rulers than the MC being smart.
Being at war =/= giving supplies. But either way, currently the demons have stopped expanding their territory for some as-of-yet unexplained reason. The countries are currently at a tenuous peace. The country we're currently observing definitely did not face the full brunt or horrors of the war. I'm not repeating this a third time.
"People see profit in clothing, therefore move production to clothing, therefore there's famine" - That's wrong. "There is famine, therefore everyone is an idiot" is actually what YOU and the author are saying. Read the chapter again. We're told there's a famine, and then the author/MC shows us later it's because of people planting too much cotton trees. Before the MC actually goes into the reason why, it could've been x, y, or z. It could've been anything. The author ultimately chooses, "It's because people keep planting too much cotton trees instead of edible crops, and then wondering why they're starving, which is pretty stupid of them". We are chronologically given the effect first, and then any number of causes could be made up later - this is lazy writing to try to cheaply show off how "competent" the MC is, which is a general failing of the isekai genre.
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