On 21Feb2021 1818, Alex Goodwin wrote:

> I think this is the only practically-gameable abstraction.
> Variable-rate ship mortgages, although more closely reflecting
> terrestrial commercial reality, require some mechanism to generate the
> rate changes and are more GM bookkeeping.  Even I'm not willing to go
> that far.
Rate changes seem to me to be a plot device and/or mechanism for removal
of excessive PC wealth. "The banks are raising ship mortgage rates
across the board, using a little-known and almost never used clause in
all standard ship mortgage contracts"...

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