Who Broke the In-Game Economy?

Why are RPG economies so bad? Why are shopkeepers so mercenary, why are the prices so crazy, and why do you always end up a gazillionaire by the end of the game? Can't we just have a sensible balanced economy?
The Best of 2013

My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2013.
The Game That Ruined Me

Be careful what you learn with your muscle-memory, because it will be very hard to un-learn it.
Why Batman Can't Kill

His problem isn't that he's dumb, the problem is that he bends the world he inhabits.
The Best of 2014

My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2014.
ok so maybe im just that blonde myself but either I couldn’t get to the joke or that that was the joke in which case fuck you shamus
The joke is that you can just keep clicking links for a rediculous length of time and never get anywhere, isn’t it.
Did anyone actually get to the end, or does it loop back on itself?
It loops, eventually – assuming the chain isn’t broken with dead links by now.
Did a blonde make this joke up? Oh wait. I’m a blonde…
If a blonde shaves bald will people notice and stop telling blonde jokes to them? Are bald jokes more tolerable than blonde jokes?
dude, those people saying they’re blond.. they actually came to the conclusion that the joke might be that you go through a continuous loop of pages, all supposedly directing you to the desired location.. the supposedly hilarious blond joke :/ ive been clicking for fucking hours, this is for a study, at my college. what a fool i feel.
One of the links is dead. I understood the joke after about the 3rd link (seeing as there might have been dead links after all this time), and then finally got to the LiveJournal link and that whole page has been removed. (I decided to just click through anyways because why not)