Welcome to the town of Justice, population 5 (sometimes 9, depending on how cooperative the extra 4 are willing to be). This town was painstakingly built over a period of several days and contains various industries, a postal system, an amusement park and, of course, a jail. The town of Justice also has its own currency called "galleons", which are a certain type of leaf that is easily obtained from the trees surrounding the town. It seemed like a great idea at first (previous towns had used homemade paper currency that took a good bit more time to make), but it didn't take long for the shop owners of Justice to realize that there really can be too much of a good thing sometimes.
When one resident wanted to purchase a highly desired object from another resident, the owner of said item decided to price it unreasonably high at 30 galleons in an effort to dissuade the would-be buyer. The hopeful buyer, however, would not be outsmarted and quickly agreed to the outrageous price and then skipped away and picked 30 galleons off of a nearby tree and returned to claim her purchase. The original owner of the item learned a very valuable lesson in that moment about the value of a galleon, and from that moment declared that the residents of the town of Justice were no longer allowed to pick another galleon from any tree and that any galleons exchanging hands from thenceforth would have to come from their current supply. The financial aspect of the town became much more steady, productivity increased as the residents began to trade services in exchange for galleons and the trees were a whole lot happier. Though I heard a rumor that crime might have increased a little from those who had yet to come up with a product to sell....
All they'll ever need to know about economics they're learning in the backyard joy...
When one resident wanted to purchase a highly desired object from another resident, the owner of said item decided to price it unreasonably high at 30 galleons in an effort to dissuade the would-be buyer. The hopeful buyer, however, would not be outsmarted and quickly agreed to the outrageous price and then skipped away and picked 30 galleons off of a nearby tree and returned to claim her purchase. The original owner of the item learned a very valuable lesson in that moment about the value of a galleon, and from that moment declared that the residents of the town of Justice were no longer allowed to pick another galleon from any tree and that any galleons exchanging hands from thenceforth would have to come from their current supply. The financial aspect of the town became much more steady, productivity increased as the residents began to trade services in exchange for galleons and the trees were a whole lot happier. Though I heard a rumor that crime might have increased a little from those who had yet to come up with a product to sell....
All they'll ever need to know about economics they're learning in the backyard joy...