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I suppose my mind will only entertain the simple axiom of 'how can we get the most entertainment value out of it?'

Weight = more gameplay consequences and costs to take into account for balancing. Adds realism, but at the potential cost of fun for some players or effort spent on its development that's not going into other systems as a result.

No weight = standard way of going about it. Works well and allows you to concentrate on the balance of economy or put that concentration elsewhere.

A few methods have been named to try and mitigate or cross-breed the two ideas, but for my 2 cents worth of weight I'd suggest looking at how to make it entertaining first and foremost. For random ideas--

Perhaps having a 'Mysterious Banker' offer to give you a pyramid of treasure to instantly teleport all your monetary earnings into a pool of riches that could even earn interest! .... if you could just help him out with collecting some loans that were made by his predecessor...or for a percentage fee...or your account and your partner's both go to the same place to make you nervous, etc. You could have it similarly teleported to a bank that may be robbed by bandits or smuggled out by that Mysterious Banker himself at a certain point to track down as he goes missing yet the money you find instantly still goes to him as it's cursed to do so (or perhaps make it a Rune of Greed or a tattoo....or both!) - until you track him down and take it over for yourself of course.

Those all may be bad examples in practice, or very potentially frustrating to any player when you just take it away from a player - it'd need to be severely tested and thought about in implementation at least-, but I have to imagine there's a way to make it work in some similar fashion that can increase the fun somehow in relatively easy fashion and not decreasing the enjoyment while making sense in the universe you're in moreso than carrying around the net worth of 12 nations in your purse or having to teleport back and forth 4 times every room due to weight issues and weighing your own greed. There are much more entertaining ways to 'punish' that greed than loading screens after all!