[papajchris]

Well essentially everything would have a purpose, so if they weren't buying the item, then the producer wouldn't be producing anything. An issue i do see is a surplus of an item, but then staff could purchase the surplus items, or the price would go down and then players would switch to something else until it was back up. if a good isn't be supplied enough, then again staff could sell the items. but i can't see that happening as a business is looking to make money, so they will have to pay more for an item if theres not many of them.

Furthermore, most likely you would work for a business and therefore have to get paid for your work (like how it is now). Now if your on your own and selling lead, yes businesses could say they are full. but then they could hold onto it, or trade it. Right now businesses have miners and still can't keep up with lead demand. I see it quite often where employees/owners are purchasing lead from players because their staff can't meet the demand