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I'm taking about the original book, before the Atreides took over. Was spice only for the mega rich? Could a middle class Caladan citizen for example buy it?

Michael Stachowsky
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  • I'm not sure that Frank Herbert ever discussed the economics of the spice, at least not anything involving numbers. It was only the cosmopolitical generalities (e.g. " the spice must flow") that mattered. Also, when you say "original book", are you excluding any prequels such as "Prelude to Dune", written by other authors ? – Spencer Jan 22 '22 at 16:20
  • I believe I have to accept prequels here, even though I generally don't like to, because my question is about pre-Dune economics – Michael Stachowsky Jan 22 '22 at 16:28
  • @Spencer I have a vague memory of a line mentioning something like that a tablespoon of Spice could buy you a house on the Guild Sanctuary planet of Tupile. I'm trying to find it again, but if right, it was certainly out of the price range of the ordinary person. – suchiuomizu Jan 22 '22 at 16:30
  • @suchiuomizu That would depend on what a typical dosage/strength was. Maybe I don't need to buy the equivalent of a house. Maybe just the equivalent of a sofa might suffice me. – Peter M Jan 22 '22 at 16:46
  • Basically a dupe of What was the typical dose of Spice-Melange? – Valorum Jan 22 '22 at 16:48
  • I think the answer to that question is good for mine and I see that Valorim copied it here. But I don't think it's a duplicate because the two questions ask different things – Michael Stachowsky Jan 22 '22 at 18:22
  • @MichaelStachowsky - Generally if a question can be answered by an identical answer, that's usually a pretty good sign that they're duplicates, even if they're asking something in a different way. – Valorum Jan 22 '22 at 23:05
  • As this is now closed as a duplicate, I've deleted Valorum's redundant/self-plagiarised answer. If the question is reopened (and I'm following this question, so I should be alerted) I might reconsider, but I'd expect if the question is significantly different enough it should have a significantly different enough answer from that previous dupe target. – AncientSwordRage Jan 24 '22 at 10:29

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