“You sure?” Susie looks around skeptically, trying to tell if this deal is legitimate or not. It seems right enough, so she says with a shrug, “Well, alright, then! If you insist! But I’d start charging if I were you.”
She takes a cookie and gives it a crunch. (Don’t ask how she does that without a mouth.) After assessing its taste and quality, she nods her head in clear approval.
“Mm, not bad! Have you ever considered opening up a business with these?” Susie’s got a nose (metaphorically) for business, and she’ll be darned if it goes to waste!
“Thank you! And, uh... no I haven’t really. I mean, back home I worked as a line cook at a restaurant. And sure, I loved my job. But we’re in a destroyed city... and everyone was given the same amount of money to start out with. It seems unfair to start charging people for food when everyone has the same amount of money, right?”
“I mean, I’d just get money from someone, then pay it to someone else, who them pays it to someone else. It’s all the same money and eventually it all goes back to where it started or one person ends up with all of it. I’m not sure that how capsaicin—er, capitalism—should work. Why not just trade the food for other things instead?”