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Alien Character Mindsets: Elves should be pretty conservative about almost everything.
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8684345" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>The issue is that humans aren't completely rational, and humans like shiny things, especially metal. Hence gold has had an inherent value that paper money, for example, does not (and a portability that land or "a really cool boulder" does not). If gold is relatively more abundant, that value goes down, but the main issue is, it's not a currency which requires some nation or state or empire to "back" it, it's not truly abstract. It's worth what you can get for it, which is usually something fairly significant. Humans have been valuing beauty and decoration for a very long time before civilization or the like, too, note.</p><p></p><p>Even food and shelter fluctuate in value relative to local conditions, note, too. In a harsh climate with little ability to "live off the land" both are starkly more valuable than in a gentle climate, for example. Variation in perceived value doesn't mean that something's value is entirely abstract.</p><p></p><p>As for "alien races", sure, they'll value different things, probably some equally irrationally, but that's a matter of world-building.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8684345, member: 18"] The issue is that humans aren't completely rational, and humans like shiny things, especially metal. Hence gold has had an inherent value that paper money, for example, does not (and a portability that land or "a really cool boulder" does not). If gold is relatively more abundant, that value goes down, but the main issue is, it's not a currency which requires some nation or state or empire to "back" it, it's not truly abstract. It's worth what you can get for it, which is usually something fairly significant. Humans have been valuing beauty and decoration for a very long time before civilization or the like, too, note. Even food and shelter fluctuate in value relative to local conditions, note, too. In a harsh climate with little ability to "live off the land" both are starkly more valuable than in a gentle climate, for example. Variation in perceived value doesn't mean that something's value is entirely abstract. As for "alien races", sure, they'll value different things, probably some equally irrationally, but that's a matter of world-building. [/QUOTE]
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