To make a comparison, language is like money in many ways, a global tool of coordination, computation, and communication. But we’re kinda sane about it. We don’t revere large piles of words. Librarians of the largest libraries aren’t treated like Bill Gates is with money.
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One of my weird influences is Alberto Moravia’s Time of Desecration, which I randomly read as a teenager because it happened to be around. Not the sort of book I’d pick myself. But the theme of desecrating money stayed with me. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1980/08/14/moravias-victims/ …pic.twitter.com/htlluIydMV
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Do you find that holds true in groups <150?
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in summary: the banality of the root of all evil
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Hi! you can read it here:
@vgr: Very large quantities of concentrated capital can bend truth rays and warp epistimology and ontology. There is a… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1256739322780241921.html … Share this if you think it's interesting.
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you're singing my anthem and the reason i want bitcoin to knock this existing system down; those big ass piles of money are gonna be worth a lot less if there's an asset that just goes up and can't be created ex nihilio; failson keeps getting richer with cheap credit+martingales
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