From: Bruce Johnson
> The absurdity is not that high-TL items are cheaper, it’s that there’s a market for those inferior low-TL items at those
> prices.

Well, there's always the option of handling the production advantages of higher tech levels with a huge increase in GDP rather than making items cheaper. Realistically, that's the way a lot of mature technologies work, the low tech version persists because the high tech labor is so much more expensive than the low tech labor that the higher productivity of the high tech methods doesn't make up for the difference.