So much of the writing is awful, even the starting point of an interplanetary empire that needs to rely on wheat from one small hamlet on a moon?!
Just recently saw a financial historian friend observing that, I quote: "A huge portion of Star Wars happens only because the banking & payments system in the Galaxy apparently sucks." Because ...
"Qui-Gonn doesn't get stuck on Tatooine and meet Anakin if Watto simply accepts his Republic credits, or if there is a convenient way to exchange Republic credits for local credits. How is there no exchange mechanism!?" And ...
"The Rebellion isn't funded and Andor's big heist can't go down if the Empire doesn't have to ship 80 million credits in *hard currency* to some rural outpost in order to make their quarterly payments. Guys just get a correspondent bank."
Here in Dubai, at the end of every month. Thousands upon thousands of salary cheques are drafted and signed, then taken by drivers to be deposited into the various banks of thousands of employees, because… I don’t fucking know.
The CFO explained it to me, but to me it boiled down to “that’s what we’ve always done’. I thought it hilarious that the CFO signs his own cheque.
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