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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

About that "money..."

Shall We Define “Money?” (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/shall-we-define-money

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Lawdy, gurl !

Doan care WHAT y'all call it...

Jus line muh pahkets wit it !

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

ROFL! [hugs!] There is a goal involving the defining of it, so... Haha!

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Dee's avatar

It does look like a mausoleum!

I heard someone mention the Credible Threat Theory. I had to look it up and it is:

"Credible threat theory is a concept in game theory that states that a threat is credible only if it is rational for the threatened party to believe that the threatening party will carry it out. The threat must serve the best interest of the threatening party, and the threatening party must be willing to carry through with the action that is being threatened regardless of the choice of the other party. Threats and promises can be used to alter other players’ expectations of future actions, and thereby induce them to take actions favorable to the threatening party or deter them from making moves that harm the threatening party."

Sounds about right to me.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Can we do an opposite day here?

We found ourselves nose-hair deep in a sea of shit.

Already installed was a monetary system that we were never given informed consent on so we inherited a legacy crime.

The threat comes in that if you try to extract yourself from the system, it is so pervasive that should you try to live independently of it you will be reduced to survival. But that is just the threat of 'Nature' being an obstacle.

But the creatures that set up the system don't want anyone exiting it, so they come out like a hive swarm to threaten the exitor back into the system and if necessary to kyll them.

So both Nature and the unnatural Hive deter us from making moves that harm the hive.

Here's an insight that I think I Stacked on.

Wasps and hornets are Hive clones. If you threaten the hive in any way they will come out in force to defend it. A Solitary wasp will nearly always fly away because since it is solitary it can't suffer the loss of self. I discovered a wasp's nest by accident and ONE wasp came out. We engaged in brinksmanship until I realized that she would not attack me because although ALL of the cells were empty she was the last remaining sister but whatever bug programming was in her had had her posture at attacking me then flying away because her survival of the hive imperative was being affected by her survival of self, because if she were to 'die trying' then the Hive (viale or not) would be at total risk.

So even those small buggy minds can experience program glitches.

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Dee's avatar

Oh I don't disagree, I am watching the show that thinks that the monetary system is going to radically change. I think that Trump and Powell are more likely best buds and that THey are using the credible threat theory so that the herd naturally moves in a certain direction simply by the threat of THeir words. It's the hex, the spell... in action by a couple of wanna be magicians, using a trick that works.

I do keep in mind that the Tariff Act of 1929 created a Trade War and that played a part in bringing in the Great Despression. Most of those alive during the Depression years are gone but I know a 94 year old who watches the N.E.W.S. and then says "I have heard all of this before". I reply, I know you have, it's all on repeat and there are not enough of your generation left to speak those words....and who would listen to those in their 90's anyways? It's just a handful of us that pay attention to the elders.

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