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Karl Marx Hates Your Guts is the inverse of Adam Smith Hates Your Guts. Goods are available and distributed at the same monetary rate everywhere. "Buy Low, Sell High" doesn't apply in such a place. Prices are fixed in such a way that it is impossible to make money by buying something and then re-selling it elsewhere. This becomes a problem in these situations: 1. * A Businessman Is You. Try to make a profit in this immovable market. 2. * The only way to earn money is via Money Spider. If speculation is unprofitable, upgrading equipment becomes dangerous.

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  • Karl Marx Hates Your Guts is the inverse of Adam Smith Hates Your Guts. Goods are available and distributed at the same monetary rate everywhere. "Buy Low, Sell High" doesn't apply in such a place. Prices are fixed in such a way that it is impossible to make money by buying something and then re-selling it elsewhere. This becomes a problem in these situations: 1. * A Businessman Is You. Try to make a profit in this immovable market. 2. * The only way to earn money is via Money Spider. If speculation is unprofitable, upgrading equipment becomes dangerous.
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  • Karl Marx Hates Your Guts is the inverse of Adam Smith Hates Your Guts. Goods are available and distributed at the same monetary rate everywhere. "Buy Low, Sell High" doesn't apply in such a place. Prices are fixed in such a way that it is impossible to make money by buying something and then re-selling it elsewhere. This becomes a problem in these situations: 1. * A Businessman Is You. Try to make a profit in this immovable market. 2. * The only way to earn money is via Money Spider. If speculation is unprofitable, upgrading equipment becomes dangerous. This applies only to games or stories where you could make a living as a businessman if the game did not set up prices in precisely the right way as to make this impossible. The trope is named after Karl Marx, one of the founders of modern communism. This can also, ironically, overlap with Adam Smith Hates Your Guts when there is both a single price no matter where you go and that price rises as you move along (or a variation on that scheme). This is somewhat Truth in Television as the act of arbitrage will cause prices in various areas to move to one price (the so-called law of one price). However, the way this is handled in games makes this somewhat infuriating, particularly when prices should be different despite arbitrage (or because arbitrage can't happen). For instance, having prices for a night at the inn fixed across the empire makes no sense if one inn is in the Capital City and another is in some village nobody has ever heard of. Examples of Karl Marx Hates Your Guts include:
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