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At each level in society, people can roughly point you to "up" or "down" and tell you how to get there. Society becomes a paved road rather than a wild jungle.

At the top of these pyramids you can have single individuals making massive amounts of money because of how many layers they seeded. Each layer a recursive and thus SIMILAR to every other layer. Each layer looks at the others and think "I could do that." and are RIGHT.

Countries who worship Money are granted great demon-like powers. But Money as God has some weaknesses:

Money has gravity and over time it loses it's ability to actually "grow" in a lively sense. It's just like a black hole sucking up everything it touches. Over time it's no longer possible to use "can make money grow" as a useful measure of ability.

(Reading and writing similarly are no longer valued skills when they would make you valued scribes in ancient times.)

It's still quite valuable now. Many CEOs are not just trust fund babies having some fun. Many *are* very good people to have in positions of leadership. They understand the fractal scaffolding needed despite the heated societal arguments around the money as infrastructure problem

It is getting less so though I think. E.g. I've rarely felt that my managers in my career have actually provided me any leadership.

Still though, a skeleton of money managers is the best society scaffolding we've come up with so far. I'm quite dubious of the "programmers" as best societal scaffolding.