"No, the long-distance lightlines have never held enough charge for that.  Low-volume low-weight high-value goods are what gets shipped.  They ship eyeballs, not flank steak.  People who once grew spices are now unemployed; and everyone else has to eat blander food."

"No, the long-distance lightlines have never been charged enough for that.  Low-volume low-weight high-value goods are what gets shipped.  They ship eyeballs, not flank steak.  People who once grew spices are now unemployed; and everyone else has to eat blander food."

"No, the long-distance lightlines have never been charged enough for that.  Low-volume low-weight high-value goods are what gets shipped.  They ship eyeballs, not flank steak.  People who once grew spices are now unemployed; and everyone else has to eat blander food."

"Iron ingots don't rot; they get shipped through intervening space, on space barges."

"No, the long-distance lightlines have never been charged enough for that.  Low-volume low-weight high-value goods are what gets shipped.  They ship eyeballs, not flank steak.  People who once grew spices are now unemployed; and everyone else has to eat blander food."

"Metal ingots don't rot; they get shipped through intervening space, on space barges."

"The long-distance lightlines have never been charged enough to ship ordinary food.  Low-volume low-weight high-value goods are what gets shipped.  They ship eyeballs, not flank steak.  People who once grew spices are now unemployed; and everyone else has to eat blander food."

"Metal ingots don't rot; they get shipped through intervening space, on space barges.  There's probably some neighboring planets that ship food back and forth that way.  But not over lightline."