🐈

the reason slack is added to the entire system is that in some parts of the system there is too much tension. the desired transformation is not possible so money floods the system hoping to find a path from A to B

think about the forking exploratory pattern of lightning or how much wealth and effort was spent on literal alchemy to turn lead into gold

the desperation for at one part of the system creates the slack that is creating problems in other parts of the system modern day gold seeking includes things like “more growth” “more innovation” “immortality” etc... they’re all desperate attempts at lead transmutation

so. the way to avoid the effects of inflation is to shorten the amount of links between what you can offer and what transformations you need this means wanting different things or having different skills

but in general, the fewer links needed in a transformation the less sophisticated the output reducing the links so that you only grow potatoes and hoard guns and gold only works if that can fulfill your needs

a common way of changing needs is just to move to a different country if possible. some skills like programming are very transferrable into another link system if u only have bureaucratic knowhow however, in another country your only valued service may be avocado picking

in additional to adjusting source-target transformations it’s also good to reel in your wealth storage so that there are fewer links

e.g. if the stock you own has a price not based on fundamentals but on expectations on the expectations on the expectation on the expectations on the.... then u will want to transform that into sth with less links bc it will be less affected by the incoming slack wave