On 7:38 AM Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > You don't make money by driving away business, though, and telling > Easterners that if they don't like the terms they can go be Teckla is > going to alienate a potential market of title buyers, thereby not > *allowing* the Jhereg to squeeze money from them. On the other hand, you follow the De Beers model of maintaining scarcity of something you can sell for a big profit. Commoners are common, so nobility has to be rare.