The shoe planet
Well, someone has to produce all the shoes. And we’ve got all the best shoe-producers in the world.
We’ve got companies dedicated to producing shoes for high-gravity environment, we’ve got literally a million styles of shoes, and shoes for all the races and people kinds.
Shoes for fetishists of all sorts and kinds. Electronic shoes, sports shoes, shoes for space travel and shoes for burial rituals.
Just think about it. A hundred million small shops creating dedicated shoes, a billion people delivering half-products; the economy of scale unlike anything else in the galaxy. We’ve got shoe universities, we’ve got shoe-masters who spent their whole life exploring the intricacies of feet kinds and people needs.
Our shoe creators learned and competed among the best. Just a month on our planet can teach you more about shoe creation than a lifetime travelling the universe, trying to extract some exotic knowledge from shoe creators on the other planets.
Now, it doesn’t mean that there are no good shoe producers anywhere else. They sometimes happen. Lonely geniuses. But as soon as one of them stumbles upon anything interesting, and as soon as the word gets to us, there’s a hundred shops that will open up over here and try to replicate the success. And some of them will succeed.