On Every Man's Thing (book)

On Every Man's Thing is a Gabyrian book, primarily on economics. It was written at an unknown time, by an unknown author - possibly even multiple authors. The book explains several basic economical concepts (e.g. supply and demand, profit, capital, goods and services, surplus value, etc.) mostly in the form of parables and poems.

First recordings of the book being sold date to 572 BEKE - ever since that, it has been translated into just about every Occidental language (High Elven, Wood Elven, Etrandish, Dwarven, etc.) and effectively became the bible of merchants and economics - even fourteen centuries after the book's first release, it still is that.

On profits and surplus value
While many may interprete this part of the book as an encouragement to "cut out the middleman", in other parts, the book also warns that the travel and transportation costs incurred by doing that might outweight the decrase in costs.

It is also important to note, that in the Gabyrian culture and religion, greed is not considered a sin - in fact, it's almost considered a virtue. Thus, when the book writes "in his greed", it isn't said in a negative light, but more in a positive sense of "knowing one's own worth" - nevertheless, in more greed-negative cultures, like the Froturnish, Dragoci and Etrandish ones (due to the influence of the Church of Titanius and Cult of Nature), the phrase "in his greed" pretty much always gets misinterpreted, to the point where some translations try to fix the issue by using different words. Some versions translate "feels entitled to in, his greed" to "feels entitled to, knowing his own worth", which emphasizes the fact that labour is just as much a subject to the rules of supply and demand as common goods.

On labour as a commodity
To reiterate, Gabyrians do not consider greed a sin, but rather a virtue, which is why some translations translate "feels entitled to, in his greed" to "feels entitled to, knowing his own worth" - which serves to further emphasize the fact that labour is also a subject to the laws of supply and demand.