Holidays in the Sun

Just why does there always need to be a princess at the Rainbow Falls Traders Exchange?

Written for EQD's Writer's Training Grounds #016.

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Walabio

Walabio #1 · Apr 24th, 2014 · 1 · ·

This is a nice fun story. I would also have put a sort section about the rule stating that only the licensed concessionaires can use money:

In fleamarkets and swapmeets on Earth, one can buy sell, and trade. In RainBowFalls, one can only trade. I see 2 ways around this:

In fleamarkets and swapmeets on Earth, since most of the participants are not professional vendors and thus do not know taxlaw, an exemption on taxes exists up to a certain value, usually 1k$ in the US. One does not have to worry about taxes for transactions less than 1 thousand U$D. Perhaps, in Equestria, one owes taxes on all cash-exchanges, no matter how small.

Princess Celestia, in order to make her subjects appreciate her currency, forbids the use of money at the SwapMeet.

I personally favor the latter explanation. The inability to use money made RainBowDash have to go through a complicated chain of trades. It took Spike an whole day to successfully negotiate the trade of 1 comicbook for another comicbook. Spike and RainBowDash probably appreciate that Princess Celestia gave them a medium of exchange, a standard of deferred payment, a unit of account, and a store of value, now. Without money, one must depend on the double coincidence of wants.

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