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In an economic depression the "king" is crippled. For a village that trades seashells, the dying of the tribal chief is enough to destroy the accounting system. Other systems have varying degrees of robustness.

Money printing is the act of parading around the crippled king in the throne of gold. It's like when sales go down and you increase marketing to try and compensate. The issue is usually deeper like a product or support issue.

It's like a wheelchair which allows some sort of existence post-crippling. It allows movement and a semblance of regular life during the healing process where problems are investigated and repair happens.

The cost is that the "humanity" of the faith backed token shows through. It damages the 'godlike' aura of the thing and devalues it

Over time, the Cult of God which tokenizes history via their tokens starts to worship a False Idol. Either an ideology in the case of Zombie-ness. Or an individual/small-group in the case of Vampire-ness. The power of the token derives from the worship.

E.g. in a corporate environment of 100 people you have 100 units of status/attention. A toxic workplace is one that's propping up the existing status distribution. The toxicity is put up w/ because the distribution is 'fair'b/c there is no alternative interpretation of history.

"Demon Worship" is akin to fetishizing something you know is 'evil' because the benefits outweigh the costs or you believe that the end justifies the means. The actual vampire/zombie doesn't exist but through the act of worship the worshipper *becomes* it.

I.e. "satan" by necessity can only manifests itself through an avatar.