How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

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With consumers no longer extracting hut equity, the 
industries that grew up around the hut glut also fell into 
crisis. Hut builders, design consultants, window trimmers, 
and appliance salespeople werelaid off in droves. 
Other seemingly disparate industries were impacted as well. 
The Usonian donkey cart makers had benefi ted greatly from 
hut equity extractions. Effortlessly pulling fi sh out of their 
appreciating huts had allowed islanders to buy bigger and 
bigger carts. In the go-go days, many of these wagons became 
so large that four or fi ve donkeys were needed to pull them. 
(This was problematic as most of the donkeys were imported.) 
With no more hut equity to tap into, sales of these “grass 
guzzlers” plummeted, and the cart companies fell 
into bankruptcy. 
The island became ensnared in the worst economic crisis 
since the great monsoon of Franky Deep’s era. Growing 
desperate, the unemployed workers converged on the Senate 
demanding solutions.  

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