[Spaceships] Islamic Banking and Financing Spaceships Purchases

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Originally Posted by jason taylor

It's both. If one brand of coffee gets a higher price because all the Bohemians in town hear rumors that, "every other brand uses coffee produced by whip-scarred serfs and this one gets it from honest deals with honest freeholders" then it has given it a higher price for a value judgement. If the rumor is true then it deserves it's extra price. The price comes from the ethical superiority.

Sure, but it would work exactly the same way in economic terms if there were a large class of sadists who enjoyed seeing images of whip-scarred serfs and gloating over them, and would pay more for that brand of coffee.