09-03-2007, 06:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-03-2007, 06:19 PM by Swiss Mercenary.)
Quote:If goods come in, money goes out to pay for them. If money comes in, goods go out in exchange. There's no way to simultaneously keep cash circulating within a community and yet also spend it on stuff from outside that community.
I'm pretty sure there's a difference between surplus cash leaving the community, in exchange for goods, and surplus cash leaving the community, in exchange for nothing (Profit margins getting spent by the Jones' down the street, vs profit margins getting spent by Billy Bob from NYC).