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> Any exchange of value based on trust is exploitable

I was thinking "money screws things up" and its corollary "free screws things up", then read your comment. It gets to the root of things.

With trust, trade is unlimited, so I wonder how to architect things to stand up to the problems we have.

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The obvious is a robust welfare state. I mean it seems pretty clear to now that inequality goes up, social stability decreases, major overhaul, a generation of babysitting it... like just stop pandering to the meme we can’t afford universal healthcare and college education. Cause we also cannot afford leashing the next generation to soon to dead men’s gambling debts.

But that effectively ends the point in aristocracy, the meme that we must cater to all these rugged individuals living off grandpas old money. So that’ll never fly.

Violent revolt it is! Front row to the apocalypse! /s

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