"You'd sell yourself as a speculative investment, then."
"Do you know the real story of how the Project Lawful girls came to command the prices they did, in Dis? It was on just such speculation, that they might know the secrets of making better devils, and then, their prices having grown that high, it became a mark of status among the lesser players to own them, and then the greater players, and now they are held by Counts of Hell."
"And then - as those who stayed out of the game, or left it early, do always say afterwards was foreseeable, inevitable - the speculation was punctured, and the market disappeared."