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nothing can travel faster than light, besides shadows, gossip, and money
a system which integrates with a market mechanism to solve a resource distribution problem is able to react to far away events before it even becomes aware they've occurred, through financial backpressure
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RT @a_yawning_cat
the basic function of money is simple.
don’t do stupid things
for simple initiatives money isn’t even necessary, but for more complex…
https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1413336039729483777
using money as an intermediate representation of reified power, one becomes able to solve the central planning problem by entirely side-stepping it
however, signals propagate better thru more rigid media; too much money bloats a system, making it sloshy
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RT @pee_zombie
in order to do this, you need a way to "push out" decisions to locales where the necessary information is present, & to "pull in" the decisions about the results
th…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396173122609496068