Well, honestly I am
pretty sure that rarity is a big problem.. at this point, Era's economy revolves around rare items, and I can almost gauruntee you that. If you don't have a rare items, or above 1 million dollars, you have nothing. The only way to really get anything of value IS and always has been for the most part, involving yourself in one of these things:
A.) Working Era's jobs for roughly 500 hours straight than combining your money with other friends money to buy a business.
B.) Try and get a job at someones business, and work.. forever. (Slave labor 4 items anyone?)
C.) Find people who have lots of money/items, and attempt to make friends with them so they will let you have/borrow items.
D.) And last but not least.. the most obvious and used method of getting money, abusing bugs, glitches, so on and so forth.
This really is the reality of Era, which is quite frankly, sad and very unappealing to new comers on Era. But yeah.. 'nuff said.