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however even with hard assets the money is still in the system. if you buy gold for cash the seller needed the cash and is presumably injecting that cash somewhere else in the economy

so the main exit points for a local system are: 1/ exit to an external system. e.g. for the u.s. it's dollars going into foreign systems (trade deficit) for individual states it's out-stage egress, etc... 2/ savings. this is psychological. just piles of cash just sitting there.

the local capacitors and buffers also create their own closed loop systems not only are they closed loop, they "extract" from the environment and increase in size that is to say... businesses GROW

this is GOOD. because the concept of an "environment" doesn't actually exist. it's ALL just closed loops nested within each other with a few points of interconnection

take ur job. the ingress is how the company makes money. you use that money buying avocados and toast at local markets. some big exit streams are taxes. maybe you buy a vanguard index fund. not that difficult to model. u r but a caricature from the system's view

that is to say, to YOU, your company IS your local environment that gives you life. you can move between different environments but u r like a parasite switching hosts. you still need a host

monolithic systems that fail to fractally sub-divide tend to collapse and fail soviet union style china for e.g. is fractally sub-divided allowing it to manage the world's largest statehttps://twitter.com/SamoBurja/status/1389193648521322498?s=20 …

so the non-stop pumping of money into the economy through mmt actually feeds these large sub-systems and allow them grow like zombie cancer YES it IS sustaining "life" but also, it's cancer.