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Maybe if there were *no* countries that's be better? Maybe countries of size 1000, 10,0000, 1M, 2M? Producing One Giant Peaceful System has never been done. Even our best authors can't seem to write a fiction book about Utopia.

Like, even pokemon is dystopian. Forcing your pets to fight other people's pets. The whole world is on a constant drip of ecstasy or something.

What a money system has historically been good at though... is War.

Our systems are geared for war. This defines our sense of seriousness. Without war, there is no seriousness and thus there is no energy to do anything.

Like steering a battleship, changing an energy source is difficult and takes a lot of energy. Crashing or bowing up the battleship doesn't help you change directions faster. "I've reduced the mass by 90%!! this will allow us to turn 10000x faster!"

The well meaning engineer sends thousands into the Void because the point wasn't the direction change for himself but a direction change for the giant, stupidly slow, system that was keeping him alive.

"You are not allowed to do this serious stuff until you've proven yourself." Seriousness proves us capable of leading and steering a ship of seriousness while doing right by those who follow you.

Unless you start lifting weights of responsibility now. you'll be like the idiot child unable to step into the role of adult as your father's funeral. Unable to console anyone, not even yourself.