crtdaydreams: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2026-04-13#1036106 << neh eden was a walled garden, such is the global economy. trying to buy/sell anything outside of it requires a movement. the kulaks don't know what a WOT is, and they don't care. there's fields to plow. lead and gold are the only safe reserves in their mind, which is not wholly without basis.
dulapbot: (pest) 2026-04-13 asciilifeform: theoretically nothing prevents it. all that's req'd is for sumbody to actually want to !
crtdaydreams: 'critical mass' takes more than N^3 users
crtdaydreams: it's just an exercise of papershuffling if the collective doesn't make up a village i.e. the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
crtdaydreams: worse yet, you end up with some flavour of pyramid scheme
crtdaydreams: why not simulate?
crtdaydreams: it's what the USG do, alladin etc.
crtdaydreams: it's one thing if you can make accurate predictions on a stable market, but it's another ball game to poke it with a stick and see what happens
crtdaydreams: current events is likely a 'tuning' of their predictive algorithms. i.e. how far can you overtly put pressure the market before your simulated predictions are wrong?