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Money

Money is not the solution. It is the source of most of our problems. The worst thing about this strangely powerful abstraction of value and possession is that it seems as though inequitable outcomes are not only probable, they are positively mandatory in this complex system of systems that our world represents.

For anything to have any value whatsoever, there has to be a distributed gradient of difference across the entire socioeconomic matrix; this generates potential information and energy flow. Unfair outcomes are inevitable – the system of value depends upon absence (as poverty) to generate that value. Semantics in language has a similar dynamical symmetry and relational displacement; meaning is never found in one place and this is for some strange reason and precisely why it tends to accrue in self-gravitationl wells.

Marginalisation and poverty exist because they

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