at the beginning of the game stardew valley, the sprinkler is insanely expensive relative to your income. yet if you had a bank that could lend you money to buy these sprinklers, you could greatly accelerate your income.https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Quality_Sprinkler …
Here's a plot of 20% growth. the latter half provides 80% of total profits! by using debt to accelerate yourself past the initial slow start, you can save a lot of time.pic.twitter.com/dll7CwfLR7
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but even if you jumpstart forwards, the way exponentials work is that the new latter half (your new projected future) will STILL return 80% of the total returns. once you make millions you start dreaming of billions.
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hoomans are more envious than greedy. they can't make exponential growth work for them because they don't have absolute desires. they have relative desires. they always need MORE than that other hooman. and that is impossible:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1366808416186867712?s=20 …
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debt in stardew valley would kill the game. it is a tranquil escape from the status games and constant comparison that debt fuels. instead of trying to gobble up the future in one bite. it becomes sth we can look forwards to. knowing that our best days are still ahead.
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^ see what i did there, i made my thoughts all nice and fluffy. the original thought was "someone should tell the dogs to KNOW THEIR PLACE and be content with creation as it is."https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1355590417098498050 …
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