[IW] Ordinary Worlds with valuables!

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Originally Posted by mr beer

Don't know if this is what David J was referring to, but the famous Gin Craze of the 1700s triggered several peices of legislation aimed at curbing the public menace of widespread addiction. It definitely had a classist element because the concern was the visible poor committing various outrages while guzzling rotgut gin, not the wealthy doing the same thing in more rarified locations. It wasn't about revenue as such, though I'm sure that was a side benefit, but rather social engineering.

To be fair, doing such stuff in an isolated area is probably less socially problematic (if morally hypocritical) than say doing it in the streets and causing a problem for everyone to have to deal with.