Candide and his servant Cacambo endure many hardships
until they reache Eldorado where they observe children in a village wearing tattered
gold and playing with gold balls and gems as though they are mere stones. They are
invited later to dinner at the first house they come to, a house built like a palace in
Europe. When they offer to pay for their sumptuous meal, their host and hostess laugh
at their efforts to use "stones" to pay them. (They consider the jewels and gold as
worthless.) Clearly, there is abundant wealth and resources so that no one wants for
anything.
While there is no specific mention of how people
invest, Chapter XVII contains a line that states, "The other guests were merchants and
carters." Evidently, there is no need for investments as there are boundless resource
for people, and there is no crime or need for lawyers.
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