Boss of the Oden Black Market
Unilaterally set the rate at 1 daikon = 2 waters. No one can defy it. Works faster than a central bank.
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” ── Adam Smith
KAMN (Boss of the Oden Black Market) types are geniuses at discovering a "market" in any environment. Within 48 hours of being locked in, this type has seized the oden counter and set the barter rates. 1 daikon = 2 waters. 1 egg = 3 waters. Shirataki is crashing. Nobody asked, yet an economy has been born.
What matters is how surprisingly precise KAMN's rate-setting is. Supply and demand, shelf life, nutritional value — all of it is priced in. In the time it takes a central bank to move interest rates once, you adjust the daikon rate three times. Fast work. A perfect central bank — except that no one authorized any of it.
Can build an economy
KAMN's true achievement is turning the "distribution" of supplies into "trade." Rationing handed out one-directionally makes people passive; trade makes them active. From the day your black market opened, a strange energy filled the store. Everyone started working — for daikon. GDP is being generated. In a convenience store.
Can build inequality too
But a market always breeds inequality. On day 24, tension between you — monopolizing the oden assets — and the underclass holding nothing but shirataki finally reaches its critical point. Revolution. The masses surround the pot, tear up the rate board, and liberate the daikon. You are deposed, yet somehow not resented. In the post-revolution store, everyone says, a little wistfully, "You know, his black market was kind of fun."
Strengths
- Skilled negotiator
- Can build an economy
- Generates energy
- Works faster than a central bank
Weaknesses
- Calculating
- Gets overthrown
- Abandoned the shirataki
- Charges a fee to make change
Even if you give in to the hot-snack temptation, just for today it's forgiven.
🍀 Lucky item: Frankfurter
The innovator who smashes the old order and builds his own rules and economy. No one defies him.
