jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.6
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All 36 commodity stubs fleshed out with lore context, production chain descriptions, and economic intelligence briefing voice. Key treatments: fusion_fuel (D-187 8:1 ratio), services (location-bound mechanics), brands distinguished from commodities per D-185. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Consumer Goods
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Consumer Goods |
| Tier | final |
| Elasticity | unit_elastic |
| Base Price (Tractus) | 80 |
| Bulk Class | compact |
| Unit | units |
| Production Ubiquity | ubiquitous |
| Demand Model | market |
| Commission Certified | No |
| Compact Contested | No |
| Shadow Viable | No |
| Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
| Description | Daily necessities, household items, personal tech. |
Consumer goods is the broadest final category in the catalog, covering everything from household cookware and personal care products to light personal technology, clothing, and the durable goods that populate residential and commercial spaces. The production recipe mixes 0.3t of processed food, 0.3t of textiles, and 0.2 units of electronics — a deliberately broad input mix reflecting the category's diversity. Ubiquitous production ubiquity means consumer goods manufacturing is distributed across essentially every settled system at sufficient scale, making it the most geographically resilient final category.
Consumer goods demand is market-driven and unit-elastic, meaning price changes produce proportional demand responses. This is the standard commodity behavior — no panic, no regulatory complexity, no political flags. The category is interesting to traders primarily as a signal of upstream input conditions: a consumer goods price increase that outpaces general inflation suggests electronics or textiles constraints propagating forward; a consumer goods discount suggests processed food or textile surplus clearing through the manufacturing sector.
The 80 Tractus base price places consumer goods at the lower end of the final goods tier. The category is volume-driven — high turnover, competitive margins, geographically distributed producers. Brand differentiation (thrds garments, corridor-specific specialty items) operates above the generic catalog level, where the brand system rather than the commodity price governs margins. The generic category here is the floor of that market, not the ceiling.