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Re:Facebook is other people by edmundsauto on Saturday September 25, 2021 @03:12AM (#28651146)
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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Re:Facebook is other people by leppr on Saturday September 25, 2021 @05:40AM (#28651802)
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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Re:Facebook is other people by Lammy on Saturday September 25, 2021 @03:20AM (#28651202)
> 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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