War Profiteers
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by Theel Maas
We live in troubled times - the world is at war. Powers shift, lines are crossed. It has been said that the only truths in our existence are death and taxes. You might ask, "What's the point?" The answer is simple: money. Someone stands to gain from this conflict. In this report I tell you who.
On the one side you have taxes, orchestrated by congress. These men just happen to be campaigning for re-election. Employing nationalist pride to their gain is the status quo. What better way to inspire the multitude than creating a foreign enemy?
On the other side you have the defense contractors, weapons manufactures mostly. Charging ever higher premiums for the guns simple folk make. They'll say it's simple supply and demand, that they can't even keep up as our president summons the people to fight.
Who is to blame? Better yet, who is doing something about it? I give you Animalevic, a congressman from the Chagang region. He has sponsored a bill intended to lower the level of import tax imposed on foreign weapons. It seems to have the support of congress. According to congress, this will improve competition in the market, keeping costs low for me and you.
Perhaps these elected officials do serve the people. The jury is still out on our weapons dealers.
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You really don't understand supply and demand of weapons, do you?
As demand goes up (war), supply goes down, and prices rise
As demand goes down (peace) supply goes up, and prices fall
You know that Hungarian, Atropates, who stole our 40000 KPW. Guess what he's been doing with it? Buying up all the weapons we make. Blame PEACE if you need to blame anyone.
Animalevic isn't the author of the bill, he's just the one who got it up when Drago asked someone in congress to propose it. So if you want to point at anyone as wanting to stand for the people of eNK, point your finger at Drago. He's been a true leader since day 1.
I was trying to keep it in character is all Moon. Drago is awesome.
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I've had to hike up q2 weapons by .7 because I can't get fair prices on iron, blame the iron companies. As for the Q1 companies, they're just being greedy.
How dare you accuse the iron companies!
I provide the cheapest iron in all of eNorth Korea!
I believe it is the weapons companies, jacking up profits to line their pockets!
1.9 or 2 kpw for Q2 iron? How is that fair? I won't speak any more before I'm reported for racism.
I run a Q1 Iron company. Hypnotoad Iron.
My current price is .9 KPW, the cheapest on the market, considering all prices, from all Qs.
How could I report you for racism?
"You know that Hungarian, Atropates, who stole our 40000 KPW. Guess what he's been doing with it? Buying up all the weapons we make. Blame PEACE if you need to blame anyone."
Yeah, that was surprising at the fact he bought our weapons, less at the point he used it to buy weapons. That is mainly was PTOs are all about. Why use your own money to start a war when you can steal somebody else's. You would gain more than you'd lose if you were successful...
In my opinion though, PEACE is a bullshit name. They are responsible for pretty much all of the eWorlds violence and devastation. They constantly PTO countries and used the looted gold to pay for another war. Most of the wars have no real goal, they just want to watch the world burn...
PEACE absolutely is to blame for everything, PEACE must be destroyed...
No love for animalevic for being first on the ball Moontayle?
The lack of low-cost weapons is making fighting and gaining rank very difficult. Hope a solution comes up soon!
black market weapons are available at 10 Q1 weapons for 1 gold