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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 4022419" data-attributes="member: 42582">But in fact most people in poor countries (indeed, a good many people in industrialised countries, perhaps the majority) can't afford to feed themselves and their families on purchased meals. I have eaten the modern-day Kenyan equivalent of a "poor meal". Most Kenyans could not afford to regularly purchase such meals. Like poor people everywhere, they make their own meals. Indeed, in non-industrialised countries, not ony do people prepare their own food but they frequently do it using produce they have grown themselves.Now if you want to monetise all of the economic activity in your gameworld (so that the daily income for a labourer includes not only their wage but the economic value of all the subsistence production in which that person engages) go for it. But that sounds like an ambitious project to me. After all, real-world economist have trouble agreeing on the economic value of non-marketised production in our real-world economies.</blockquote>