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The \"economy\" section is all really not this trope. It\'s describing different industries they think use this trope (which is not the same as \"economy\"), but... no. First of all, selling a service is not a duel.
Second, the examples seemed to mostly be saying, \"In this industry, once the contract is signed, you get paid whether you \'win\' or \'lose\'!\" Besides the fact that \"win or lose\" isn\'t the best way to put that, it\'s completely missing the point - you still need to work hard to do the best job so you get the \'\'next\'\' contract - if you have a reputation for doing badly, that contract will be your last.
Third, that\'s not even what the trope is - the trope is when a person comes up with plans for a particular situation so that they win regardless of what happens. You should be able to see what\'s wrong with the idea that that exists for an entire industry - if it did, no one would contract a firm to do that, they\'d do it themselves. Also, if a blueprint like that exists, it\'s still not this trope. If the first person to use it didn\'t let anyone else in on the plan and let them think they\'d \"won\" when they hadn\'t, *then* it would be this trope, but only in that instance.
Basically, the people who wrote those examples are acting based on a whole lot of false assumptions. It\'s probably best to just remove that whole category. Do any other tropes have an \"economy\" category? It\'s sort of ridiculous, even besides the fact that it\'s using the word \"economy\" wrong.
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So what this thread has established:
- Emerald and Mercury\\\'s combat prowess was not well established and largely a mystery
- Coco and Yatsuhashi\\\'s combat prowess was long since established firmly, no matter how few fight scenes they have partaken in.
- Mercury and Emerald were shown to curb stomp Coco and Yatsuhashi to show how capable and dangerous they are, because of the first two.
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