Worldbuilding

worldbuilding.stackexchange.com is the main worldbuilding forum on the internet, or one of them. It's always near the top of my search results for worldbuilding.

The hive-mind there is totally content with telepathic dragons, but if you suggest that an Bronze Age economy might not have run on Thatcherite principles, they'll say that's "too unrealistic".

• It is human nature to work for rewards, and praise, and respect, and to live better than average. But communism, if strictly enforced, demands everyone live the average life. – No it doesn't mate, read theory. Communism isn't where everybody lives in the same type of house, eats the same food, wears the same clothes. Communism is collectively manage means-of-production.

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Part of worldbuilding is building different economies. There have been non-monetary economies (hundreds of them, or thousands, thoughout history), there have been gift-economies, Palace economies... but people still want 'worldbuilding' to only be market-based.