How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

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W
ith the infl ux of Sinopian savings pushing down 
interest rates, Usonian entrepreneurs descended on 
bank loan offi cers with their best business ideas. But as 
the jobs of fi shing and producing became increasingly 
outsourced to the Sinopians, the business plans they 
presented were very different from what the bank had 
seen in prior generations. Most business proposals now 
favored companies that required local workers to deliver 
a service. These jobs could not be outsourced and were 
generally less capital intensive.
In a celebrated oration given at the island’s fi rst 
economic conference, Ben Barnacle explained the 
changes. He argued that the Usonian economy had 
developed to the point where the lowly process of fi shing 
and production could be relegated to poorer economies, 
leaving Usonians free to pursue more sophisticated 
“service sector” jobs like chefs, storytellers, tattoo artists, 
and the like.  
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