🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

—It's okay! —the student decided not to take advantage of someone else's kindness.

He decides to dedicate his free time to studying at the university — ideally, he'd like to spend 8 hours, or at least 4.

The lecturer for today's session was a certain Professor Lazerman.
- ... As you probably already know, the basis of buying and selling goods is very simple, but just in case, I'll remind you:
A hypothetical buyer, let's call him A, needs a certain product;
A hypothetical producer, let's call him B, produces this product.
Pricing is a rather complicated thing and includes many individual parameters such as production costs, logistics, and so on, but ultimately it all boils down to the supply and demand ratio, and for our example, it is only important that B has what A needs.
Any business involves certain risks, but there is one trick that helps to avoid them. What is it? It's simple: in this equation, you need to be neither A nor B, but become C. Let's say that the goods produced by B cost 10 rems. You, as C, buy them for 10 and then resell them to A for 15 - or for whatever amount he is willing to pay for the desired product, even if it's 200 - such things happen in the world of trade. What is good about this, besides the fact that you make money almost out of thin air? The fact that if this fragment of the economy is somehow affected, you can switch to other goods without incurring losses related to the non-profitability of production costs.
If we are talking not about goods, but about services, then the system changes slightly. If A needs the services of B, then as C, you should become the employer of B - for example, by renting a space where he will provide these services to A. Thus, B will work for a fixed salary - even if it is minimal, and you will earn all the surplus, which, of course, exceeds the meager amount that you will pay to your employee.

So, any questions?

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After saying goodbye, Ushumgall decides not to break his habit of having a good meal after a good workout and heads to "The Edge of Taste".

He gets there without any problems, and this time it really is getting late.

Shivering from the sudden wind that chilled him to the bone, he hobbles somewhere, presumably towards the admin panel, for some reason.

The protector of Faris, whom Genze had to meet, was a woman of not very tall stature; there was no joy on her face at the arrival of the young man.

- Where do we need to stay overnight? And we, the protectors, also sometimes need to sleep.