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by scotty79 19 days ago
Sure. But that's the result of the fact that the way money is set up, it "likes" if you acquired it earlier rather than later.

Let's naively assume that money is a reward for doing a good thing. It might be beneficial to more highly reward people who did the good thing sooner rather than later. So it's a reasonable mechanism having undesirable side effects because it's not tuned correctly.