On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Grimmund <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
<xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't be surprised if an impoverished aslan land-holder was more esteemed than a much richer but landless one..

Presumably, it depends.

If you "own" a continent on a frontier world, that's land-rich, buy
only if you're there, and less so, further way.

If you "own" something like Long Island in New York, it's a lot less
land area, but it generates a lot more wealth than does a continent on
a primitive frontier planet 8 months away.

Income and understanding it is (at least in canon) a female Aslan thing. A dirt-poor rural Aslan noble male leading a tribe that holds thousands of acres would have a higher social standing than the male who holds all those Hiltons, that his wife manages so successfully.

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