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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      if you can control the attention long enough, it will eventually turn into wealth. likewise, wealth is the right to coordinate attention at any given moment. wealth and focused attention can transmute to and from each other w/ varying degrees of efficiency and loss.

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      attention at any given moment is finite. there's a theoretical max of total number of people x hours in a day. however wealth is theoretically infinite and so can control attention for long spans of time.

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      the stock market is not the economy. the stock market is forward looking and takes place in an imaginary future. it is mostly wealth games. the economy is what's happening NOW and takes place in the present. it is the manifestation of coordinated attention.

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      since wealth's coordinating output is bottlenecked by attention per moment, most of wealth is theoretically inert. like a deflating balloon, the only "active" air is the air that is rushing out of the hole.

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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

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      however most wealth is active wealth. it's put to use to create systems that aim to "take advantage" of the world through profits. (and hopefully the invisible hand makes it non zero-sum & gaia doesn't die)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1344882109282828291 …

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      61/ Innovation hopefully cancels the Midas Effect of turning the whole world into money. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342011193804767233?s=20 …
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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      if the economy were a computer, wealth would be the code that runs on computer. the stock market is not the economy, but it runs on TOP of the economy. it's information is embedded invisibly within the system and makes known its existence through REAL effects in reality.

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      when stocks crash, the economy can become depressed just like a computer w/ no code to run. with no future to look towards, there is no present. this parallels biological depression. it is an inability to imagine a better future.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1351777921338286080 …

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      "only 2.5% of americans owned stocks on the eve of the great crash of 1929 that sparked the Great Depression. but the majority watched in amazement as the market collapsed, wondering what it signaled about their own fate." https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1327192531155570688 …
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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      popularity and leadership both focus attention in the present. they don't necessarily turn it into wealth. mob leaders and short-lived fashions often burn too brightly and die before they can crystallize it into wealth.

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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      vice versa wealth does not always command attention. north korean billionaires do not have much sway outside externally. throwing money at wall-street protestors may just anger. the efficacy of wealth is bounded within its domain, which is a product of how it was crystallized.

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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      attention also is cyclic. it has a refractory period. it can't just always be ON without rest. people die when they don't sleep. (for reasons not yet understood) life can't be lived as a constant orgasm.

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

      this implies that wealth crystallization is a LOSSY process. it allows you to store leadership/popularity/attention-control over time but it is both both less potent in its ability to recreate coordinate attention AND is bound by the per moment attention bottleneck.

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

          e.g. civilization games. the goal is to expand culturally, technologically, & militarily. you can hoard money but often times it's better to just increase production of one of the 3 main things. money offers buffer for flex decisions but it's not THAT useful to a nation state.

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

          wealth crystallization is done only as a way to transfer energy so that culture/tech/military can develop. having a big mountain of wealth crystallized doesn't make sense. it's untapped potential that should be released.

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

          there are some big reasons an individual is hoarding crystallized wealth. - planning to move to another civilization. - wants to survive a div destroying doomsday - doesn't believe in civ's ability to grow, believe it to be backwards.

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

          these natural biases mean that wealth accrued to immigrants tend to become crystallized. what is the US but a country of immigrants? it is built of individual empires that have consider themselves sovereign. sovereign states. sovereign companies.

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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 4

          everyone watches the US because it's like the messiest archetypical drama show of all: a bunch of orphans try to make a home.

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