this is very important to the middleman economy
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Things you generally can only buy indirectly under prohibition: -sex -feeling good -variance
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The lottery is a state-sponsored variance store
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but also a prohibition on poor people getting offered different deals
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you can sell time directly but only buy time indirectly. the buyer has to be under the impression that they're buying something besides time.
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hunh like two days ago i was having some half-formed thought about how the persistence of the institution of running numbers seems to say that variance is in itself a communal good in some way
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