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E.g. with enough money you could wage a surprise war without mobilizing a huge obvious army but even that as bottlenecked by logistics.

It seems that anything that grows exponentially must grow via the natural exponent. Anything else is 'external' and unnatural. E.g. injections of money.

Even something growing unnaturally is probably being injected with money that is growing naturally. Or that money pool is fed by smaller streams that themselves are growing naturally.

Plants for example sometimes seem to just start growing really fast. Yet that growth is often supported by a lot of root growth that was invisible. The 'burst' of life energy traces back to much more slower and natural (yet still exponential) hidden growth.

Success and habits work the same way I think. Good habits compound over time and invisibly support the 'bursts' of success.

This natural exponential growth seems very "vegetarian". Something more carnivorous would feast on the carcass of an existing body of energy. Either as a parasite or a predator.

Living in the "now" moment seems to be about becoming a plant. You absorb your environment, doing the little things that compound over time until you become a mighty oak tree.

A predator has to always think about the future as well as other larger predators. A parasite has to always worry about jumping to a new host. Both are always anxious. Plants are content, even as they are eaten.

I wonder if every human conflict basically boils down into a plant vs carnivore conflict. From a plant's POV a carnivore is bloody and violent, like a zombie or a vampire. From a carnivore's POV a plant is boring and dumb.

Where it gets kind of twisted is when you consume like a carnivore while being disconnected from the actual hunt. Imagine chimps creating a system where alpha chimps could butcher and sample different meats of various animals while weaker one chewed plants.

Feels kinda of twisted... Exploiting others and cannibalism seems connected to this somehow. Slavery as indirect cannibalism.

Money is like meat in a way. If you have a whole stock of it it's useful for directing attention the same way you can throw meat at people to sick a pack of wolves on them. That's how meat/money grows. This is how meat/money grows.

Within a self-contained system money is just a token. It represents contribution to a system. It's a useful token to increase the diversity of every individual's lives as well as create innovation from that increased diversity.

But when money from one system interacts with money from another system it becomes more like meat. I can throw some dogeCoin at catCountry and maybe there will be some blood spilt. Once that taste of meat is acquired I can start converting catCoin into dogeCoin.

This sort of 'violence' can only be done with a surplus of meat and energy. A neighbor with a giant freezer full of dead deer carcasses way beyond an individuals ability to consume is kinda creepy.