"No. He can charge whatever shoes are worth to people but that isn't enough to make him rich because no one else has much to spare so shoes aren't worth all that much to him. He's richer than people who have to buy shoes from him, mostly. And then he just gets spread out more ways because more of his kids live." Unless he kills some but Tonia has learned they don't do that in Taldor.

"No. He can charge whatever shoes are worth to people but that isn't enough to make him rich because no one else has much to spare so shoes aren't worth all that much to them. He's richer than people who have to buy shoes from him, mostly. And then he just gets spread out more ways because more of his kids live." Unless he kills some but Tonia has learned they don't do that in Taldor.