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Originally Posted by Jim Bob
Firstly, people will be motivated to move a Fleming around, or pass on the information he has, for profit. It's not going to change our world, but it'll change theirs, and they'll pay good for that. Imagine a 1935 echo of Earth, with Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini plotting away... you reckon they'd pay $10 million for nuclear weapon plant plans? Ten minutes of searching on the internet in our 2004 would be worth ten million bucks in their 1935. That could pay off that conveyer...
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The problem (not insurmountable, but requiring thought) with this suggestion is that ten million bucks in 1935 reichmarks from an alternate world isn't worth anything on homeline. Homeline knowledge
should have a very high market value in many of the alternates, but in all likelihood, the more they need it, the less they can offer in exchange. So making your fortune on knowledge still depends on the question of what you can profitably import with conveyors.