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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1492539" data-attributes="member: 1645">It won't destroy the local economy; it will devalue gold and gems.&nbsp; A gold piece won't buy as much as it used if there's a flood of new, unexpected gold on the market.&nbsp; Of course, a cow or chicken will buy (via barter) as much as before -- and naturally, it will get you more gold pieces than before.It will hurt anyone holding large amounts of gold; that gold is now worth less.&nbsp; It will help anyone who owes a large amount of gold; the debt is now less expensive.&nbsp; It will have little effect on anyone not dealing in gold, i.e., most of the quasi-medieval population, bartering for goods (at the low end) or holding real estate (at the high end).Imports -- whether from another county, another country, another continent, another planet, or another plane of existence -- don't disrupt the laws of supply and demand; they effectively increase supply.&nbsp; That is, they provide goods at lower prices than before (or provide those goods at all where they weren't available).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 1492539, member: 1645"] It won't [i]destroy[/i] the local economy; it will devalue gold and gems. A gold piece won't buy as much as it used if there's a flood of new, unexpected gold on the market. Of course, a cow or chicken will buy (via barter) as much as before -- and naturally, it will get you more gold pieces than before. It will hurt anyone holding large amounts of gold; that gold is now worth less. It will help anyone who owes a large amount of gold; the debt is now less expensive. It will have little effect on anyone not dealing in gold, i.e., most of the quasi-medieval population, bartering for goods (at the low end) or holding real estate (at the high end). Imports -- whether from another county, another country, another continent, another planet, or another plane of existence -- don't disrupt the [i]laws[/i] of supply and demand; they effectively increase supply. That is, they provide goods at lower prices than before (or provide those goods [i]at all[/i] where they weren't available). [/QUOTE]

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