the human controllers who became rich.......

[Chad32]

If the Human couldn't do the same stuff that the Yeerk did, then he'd have to step down. I'd say the Human should keep the money, assuming the Yeerk would leave the planet or become an animal nothlit. Not much use for US currency that way.

The Yeerks betrayed the Andalites because they wanted better hosts, but for whatever reason figured there wouldn't be enough voluntaries to go around. I'm not sure why, though. I mean, say you're a Gedd controller. You're a Yeerk, and controlling another body is natural. Your semi-sentient gedd is trained and assuming you treat it well the two of you would probably get along just fine. Why wouldn't you assume that would happen with other species? Something made them think that if they got out there into the galaxy, that not very many people would want a Yeerk in their head. They figured it would be more efficient to conquer than develop really good PR.

It must have been the Andalite's disgust for them and their planet, but the details are fuzzy.

[throwaway_gull]

There is no legal precedent on this, but I would assume they would use case law pertaining to two business partners when one is removed: namely the other parter (the human) keeps everything.

As for the trade aspect, it would likely be a deal in which Andalites sold their technology. Andalites would have needed money for their vacations on Earth.

I don't know if this is really another topic, but Ax once mentions Andalites have no money. Money allows for job specification which allows for greater progress.

The system of home construction that is mention in TAC is also really unlikely. If the Andalites were building ships at the limits of their technology, which you would hope they would be, every single home would require the machinery to build state-of-the-art components. So instead of allowing the industry to focus on the ship and arms building, a much larger part of the industry on machine tooling.

[ThinkAgain]

There is no legal precedent on this, but I would assume they would use case law pertaining to two business partners when one is removed: namely the other parter (the human) keeps everything.

I would agree with this.

However, in the cases where the human has an extraordinary amount of wealth, they could be asked to help repair damage inflicted by the war with the Yeerks. An entire city was basically destroyed, and many families are probably without homes or missing members with jobs.

Also, the building of labs and facilities to use Andalite technology would need some form of funding. Still, it shouldn't be mandatory for them, just asked. I'm sure there are enough wealthy hosts where even 1-3% of their money could easily rebuild the Animorph's town and then some.

[Phoenix004]

The Yeerks are unlikely to want or need money without their human hosts and I'm sceptical on the idea of them being allowed to become human nothlits. Besides, most Controllers would simply have been doing the same work the human was doing before they were infested. As far as we can tell, it was forbidden to use Yeerk knowledge to advance human technology (Visser Three's twin was exiled for doing it in #16) so it really was the human's experience being used to do their job.

[Stasiea]

... Now I have tried to figure out what I had done... and I don't know

[zaprowsdower]

The way I see it, in legal terms that is, is that a deal made in a state of infestation is an act of fraud on the part of the Yeerk, operating under false pretenses as their host. The money in that case would actually probably go to whomever was the other benefactor in the deal, rather than the host. Unless both parties were Controllers, then I think the hosts would get the money.

[Gumby]

I must say though, if the yeerks were allowed to keep the money, what would they do with it in their nothlit or yeerk form?

[MoppingBear]

I must say though, if the yeerks were allowed to keep the money, what would they do with it in their nothlit or yeerk form?

well whatever they nohlit as, they might want to stay in intelligent society, maybe even interact with humans, in which case they would need money.

[voodooqueen126]

I think the yeerks became human nothlits after the war: I mean why would they want to become non sentient animals (the taxxons did but they lacked imagination) i mean your children would just be normal dogs/tigers etc.
so maybe they could split the money 50/50 or if the human was involuntary he would get everything.

[Tim Bruening]

throughout the series we met a couple of yeerks who've made it big in the human world amongst ordinary humans, such as that esplin twin who used his advanced yeerk computer technical knowledge to make himself alot of money i think was what he did.

So, imagine if these human controllers during their time as controllers rose to very lucrative positions like head CEO software engineer of Microsoft or NASA or whatever, and had made billions of dollars like bill gates. Once the war is over, and they they become free of their yeerks, would/should/could the now free human hosts be allowed to keep any of the wealth/positions that they accumulated as a controller?

Tidwell Plot bunny: Tidwell's Yeerk becomes a human female nothlit, then offers to marry Tidwell!