(urth) port mimizon, department of the hand

[Gwern Branwen]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

>
> All this free association seems to neglect that we are told at the outset
> that children are extraordinarily cheap in Port Mimizon.


Low prices could be due either to oversupply *or* lack of demand. I do not
recall anything in 5HOC indicating that people are procreating so much that
they cannot afford their children and are desperately selling them off to
avoid starvation.

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gwern
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