Ax always found the concept of humans and their money as wierd, and always implied that andalites didnt have money. but they had to use SOMETHING as currency didn't they? i mean all the andalites on the homeworld were working for free?
That's certainly possible in a society like the one I believe the Andalites had. It was suggested at several points (such as books 8 and 54) that the government lies to the people about many things. Their labor may have been enforced or even somewhat brainwashed.
I think it was made pretty clear somewhere (I don't remember where exactly; maybe it was just Ax's confusion over the whole money situation) that Andalites don't usually use a currency. But presumably, they would need some sort of currency when dealing with other races.
also, in book 18, (or is it 38?) one of the andalites says he was arrested for selling organs. so if the andalites don't have money, what did he mean by that? i always figured andalites had some kind of their own version of money and being paid that was different from human money, which is why it looked wierd to ax, but the overall idea of being paid existed. What are your guys' thoughts on this?
Although the Andalties may have had no currency amongst themselves, they most likely had to have something when dealing with other races, even if it was just a trade system (which would be very limited thanks to Seerow's Kindness). Perhaps it was meant that he was selling these organs (it was book 38, by the way) in exchange for this 'intergalactic currency'. Being nothing more than a lowly
aristh, Ax probably wouldn't have had much, if any, experience with this sort of thing and so was puzzled by it.