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gwgundersenyesterday at 10:24 PM3 repliesview on HN

I’m happy to hear criticism and to learn from that, but I wrote this myself. Took quite a while.

Re: why, I don’t think most people understand the very basics of the global economy in mechanical terms, and this was my attempt to explain those mechanics. I wanted the various pieces of the system to be motivated by understandable problems, hence the fable-like story.

I now see some folks were triggered by this stylized approach. Which is a pity. I think the simple setup is worth the payoff. My explanation of money creation, for example, matches the Bank of England’s whitepaper, and I am especially pleased with how the idea of a reserve currency both develops naturally and rhymes with earlier ideas lower in the hierarchy.


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rdsubhasyesterday at 10:58 PM

Your article was well worth the read. Thank you for that. It's merely a HN trend where lazy people who can't read an article bad-mouth it as AI. You'll find the lazy AI comment in every article's top first or second comment now. Don't bother justifying yourself, keep it up and keep writing.

aorlofftoday at 12:50 AM

Try reading Debt : the first 5000 years

Money is about trust, not about the problems of bartering

jasonwatkinspdxyesterday at 10:54 PM

I'd suggest reading about David Graeber and the myth of bartering.

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