re: Utopia TV only season long thread*no spoliers*

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Also, how the hell does the money work? I see that they had 5 grand (and I also see that Prison Mike and Hillbilly Redd steal it later on??) in cash...what the frick is that for? They can buy things from the outside world? I saw in a preview that they get groceries delivered at some point. Doesn't that kind of defeat the whole fricking purpose of being on their own and "having to survive"?

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Yes, they can buy things from the outside world, but $5K isn't a lot.

I don't think it's about "having to survive" as much as how they structure their society. Surviving is just a part of that, and with money and fertile land shouldn't be a difficult part.

I have no idea how they are going to make money though, I guess selling produce or crafts? It's not like many of them had very marketable skills beforehand, and the ones that did (lawyer, contractor, chef, doctor) can't really provide those services to the outside world while they're on the inside. So they have to make something that becomes an "export" of sorts and I don't know what they're going to come up with.