...just occurred to me but by having the party hold most of their funds and equipment in common, as is the usual RPG thing, Square accidentally created a tiny mobile commune set against this massive corporate conglom running the late-capitalist dystopia setting.
Accidental thematic symbolism!
I noticed this because I was considering how ludicrously many gil the party generally winds up with, and how it probably meant Tifa could afford to run her bar at a loss if she felt like it, and Barret totally plowed all of his share into developing energy resources to pick up the slack from mako.
And then I remembered Iβd definitely seen fic that assumed Cloud was the only one who ended the plot with like a million gil and was like ?????not divide equally how?????