Scarcity and honest toil
About this model
Hesiod, Works and Days, c. 700 BCE. Hours of work turn into crops; crops are eaten each season and the surplus is stored; idle seasons drain stores and a household in want borrows from neighbours. A teaching model: it keeps only this core loop and leaves out everything else a real economy has.
"Scarcity and honest toil" is a public Machinations diagram shared in the Community by Machinations, with 23 components.
It was created in October 2026 and last edited in November 2026.
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