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by aerique 3255 days ago
It's like EVE Online but for real.
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Because it is unfettered completely innovative ruthlessly competitive free market. Boom and bust cycles from the era of industrial revolution tied to a capped deflationary currency (gold) that saw some of the fastest and most astounding speed of technological advancement in recorded human history. It's creative chaos is, personally, liberating.
Which also resulted in that jolly good time called "The Great Depression".