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if everyone is implied to be enlightened and thus a source of infinite love, meaning, and positivity, then why does the group even have a hierarchy of value? also, if everyone can produce their own love, meaning, and positivity, why is it traded like a good?

a hallmark of cults is that they try to escape a system that is cruel because it forces them to confront reality money is the token that facilitates exchange in reality so to fight this they instead use love as an alternative token

every single individual can infinitely print their own brand of love currency so everyone is infinitely wealthy at least nominally however in practice, using twitter as an example, a retweet or like is not of equal value. the originator of the retweet/like matter a LOT

this creates illegible trade dynamics. if i believe that my like or retweet is worth X and that someone else is a nobody whose like is worth one tenth of that, then every "equal" interaction actually builds a debt of resentment

something like "i retweeted your stuff and got u 100 likes and 10 new followers now you should do sth similar for me" only works if all parties involved AGREE that the love currency of everyone is equally valid

this doesn't work in practice as every group has a north korea equivalent whose love currency no one values a group that affirms every as equally valid thus has to be exclusionary and expel deviants that aren't conforming (like the EU would like to do w/ greece)

this means that while the group legally must say that everyone's currency is equally valuable, in practice the gatekeeping causes homogenization via constant pegging e.g. if 100 yen is equal to 1 dollar u could theoretically just only use dollars

there is leeway and flexibility of course... notice how the currency "manipulations" of countries tend to resemble in-group squabbles over status hierarchy everyone is trying to get their currency to be worth more