They are starting to get it ...

@Natasha_Jay

I vaguely recall a joke along those lines.

Something about two guys who are ship wrecked on a remote island, with nothing but a hat. To pass the time, they trade the hat back and forth. When they are finally rescued, both are millionaires...

@nyrath @Natasha_Jay Heinlein told that one in *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress*, except set on the Moon. (Unsurprisingly.)

@kentenmakto

IIRC H. Beam Piper told a variation of that joke in his novel Space Viking.

@nyrath @kentenmakto
Yes and yes. It was basically a racist joke about that some "people" (often Asian) could sell each other rocks in the desert and make a profit.