That is kind of true, no one actually starves on Fereginar, it's a whole culture that achieved communism while leaving capitalist ideology intact, so everything is so cheap and command economy lead that the only things worth anything are either larpy "entering your house tax" and dowries, "owning" the entirely automated black box you're using to make a treat and paying a few superfluous people to stand about pretending to work the service economy, or "Fancy Space Treats that we need to trade for".