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Challenge: I'll give $1 to anyone who can make this essential argument (which I think is correct) in a clean, punchy tweetstorm of no more than 25 tweets that attracts 200 likes in aggregate. $1 is not much, but this will be a very prestigious dollar of high honor and esteem.
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This is a brave attempt by @lou_keep to make a difficult point. I've tried and failed to make it myself multiple times in conversation, but never in an essay. Whoever can make this point in a crystal clear and evocative way can probably be president. samzdat.com/2017/06/01/the
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People crave meaning BUT derive meaning in very different ways. Today's system provides meaning for the most articulate and intelligent, but for few others. Meaning there is a huge pool of the unhappy whose unhappiness is incomprehensible to the chattering classes.
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In summary, Like this tweet so I can claim this prestigious dollar and in return I'll venmo you $.005 and write a socially rewarding comment in the public ledger. Together we'll become The Mkt.
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feel like I need to read it a 2nd time, but my tldr: modeling labor, land, & money as commodities is ~required for markets & economics, but the abstraction is /very/ leaky and treating these things as commodities in the real world leads to severe social backlash
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