Still reading, but had to pause to comment on...
Any good that is useful and scarce will have a price (consider that air is useful but not scarce, and fish with three eyes are scarce but not useful, thus no price for either of them).
Listening to NPR the other day, I learnt that millions are spent in search of the elusive three-eye tubeworm. How useful could such a discover be, you ask? Consider if it were in a zoo, if able to be kept alive or, moreover, shown to perspective investors when seeking more funding for the next scientific expedition like, I don't know, maybe the elusive Nakamoguru, of which has a defense that allows the fish to actively explore their environment without much fear of being attacked.
