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by edmundsauto 1732 days ago
On the other hand, humanity appears to have an endless capacity for hierarchy. In the absence of natural scarcity, humans create the artificial.

Also, who are the people running the economy? I think it’s an emergent phenomenon of humans natural behavior, amplified by our current scale and low friction interconnectedness.
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leppr 1731 days ago
The emergent phenomenons arise from an environment defined by certain rules and external factors.

Many of those rules are defined by a small group of people (laws), and a very important external factor (money) is directly influenced by central banks. These people decide pretty directly how much and into what types of investments money should go.

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Lammy 1732 days ago
> Also, who are the people running the economy?

I don’t know. I assume there has to be at least some intended direction for them to be able to write comics about it, but I am just a peon in this system :)

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