Well, everybody else keeps mentioning how rich Noah is (to the point where almost all his XPs are spent on more levels of Multimillionaire) - but Noah does business with the 'Danelaw on a regular basis.
All the mineral wealth in the world - any world - means nothing if you can't get somebody to buy the minerals from you, and in order to do that, you have to pull them out of the regolith and refine them. How many hard-rock miners are there in Fenspace? Hmmmmm... Rockhounds, much of the Belter faction... minor groups. There might not be the manpower available to turn every Fan with a space rock into a millionaire.
Add in the fact that dumping a large amount of a commodity onto the market will depress the price for that commodity, and one gets a situation where most Fen leave the metals where they are in order to avoid everyone (Fen and 'Dane alike) becoming suddenly less rich.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
All the mineral wealth in the world - any world - means nothing if you can't get somebody to buy the minerals from you, and in order to do that, you have to pull them out of the regolith and refine them. How many hard-rock miners are there in Fenspace? Hmmmmm... Rockhounds, much of the Belter faction... minor groups. There might not be the manpower available to turn every Fan with a space rock into a millionaire.
Add in the fact that dumping a large amount of a commodity onto the market will depress the price for that commodity, and one gets a situation where most Fen leave the metals where they are in order to avoid everyone (Fen and 'Dane alike) becoming suddenly less rich.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012