The thing is that most of the articles in this edition deserve their moment in the focus of Hacker News. Money is the ultimate software, it is a protocol agreem

The thing is that most of the articles in this edition deserve their moment in the focus of Hacker News. Money is the ultimate software, it is a protocol agreement that drives human behavior in the real world. Money may be the illusion of value, or merely an allusion to value; but it is also the dominant abstraction of the age of abstractions. You need money to live as a member of society, and to be effective within society you need more than some minimal threshold amount of money. And while we don't wear our bank accounts on our sleeves (or social media profiles) we do have a finely honed sense for who has money in quantity and who does not and it is one of the primary determinants of social status in our society. Money is a topic worthy of investigations, and of criticism and critique. It is also a fertile ground for entrepreneurial improvement.