the basic function of money is simple. don’t do stupid things for simple initiatives money isn’t even necessary, but for more complex projects money acts like a hydraulic fluid, transmitting information pressure across the subsystems
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this is y hard money holders tend to feel cultish, whether it’s burying gold in a pit for forever or holding btc forever. they necessarily hold on to the religious argument that hooman life is priceless. to break this foundation breaks the whole ideology
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soft money advocates have an intuitive sense that markets as they are now produce externalities in a way that DOES put a price on hooman life.
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should grandma’s life be extended for an extra year at the cost of 1 trillion, selling out entire neighborhoods to foreign investors? it’s a question many don’t want to answer. but the market, in its thick skinned pragmatism WILL provide and answer
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as with all things, neither of these is correct because “rightness” depends on the situation a dog frisbee for example should neither be made of jello or steel it needs to be made of fabric or rubber and also depends on how big of a chewer the dog is
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