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The simulation only has workers/producers and it has a free market – it is missing capitalism. To make it realistic you need a subset of people owning the labor

The simulation only has workers/producers and it has a free market – it is missing capitalism. To make it realistic you need a subset of people owning the labor output of others, taking out all the surplus, using it to buy stakes of more economic activity, diverting profits to themselves, thus creating the loop of concentration of wealth which removes the surplus wealth from the producers and assigns it to ever decreasing number of ever wealthier individuals.

smitty1e 3y ago
The "good" news is that gravity hates the Tower of Babel that every society inevitably produces.
- vkou 3y ago
  The "bad" news is that this kind of gravity tends to get called things like "The Reign of Terror".
  - smitty1e 3y ago
    No, no: the jackwagons atop the Tower engage in the reign of terror. The gravity at work here is economics, as seen through the lens of people. People, it turns out, don't flourish in captivity.
    - vkou 3y ago
      People don't flourish when most of their productive output is sucked up by some neo-feudal lord, either. For some reason, capital is currently consolidating at the top.
      - smitty1e 3y ago
        And those at the top pander to the bottom for power with public money. Disadvantage: the kulaks.
- jeezfrk 3y ago
  No. Gravity and a flat surface doesn't exist in money-power. It is buoyancy. It lifts few people up very high as they push down more that go down under the waves.
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context86 3y ago
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