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    1 year ago

    That reminds me of that joke:

    Two economists are walking side-by-side.

    One tells the other: I’ll give you $100 if you take a shit on the pavement.

    He proceeds to shit on the pavement and grab the $100.

    He then tells the other economist: I’ll give you $100 if you eat my shit.

    The other does the deed and collects his $100.

    After walking a few more blocks, one of them says: both of us left our dignity with that work back there and neither of us are any richer!

    To which the other responds: no, but we grew our combined GDP to $200.

    And they both walked away happy, patting each other on their backs.


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    1 year ago

    Latinum is only valuable outside of the Federation, where societies are not post-scarcity.

    Now, before you argue that there are no material conditions demanding scarcity in (some of) them, I’ll add that artificial scarcity is scarcity nonetheless.