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hunter

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23. That's easy: MONEY

Thu Sep 18, 2025, 11:33 AM

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Reducing the value of damned near everything to a single one dimensional number is utterly insane.

This one invention will ultimately be the end of us.

If we want to survive as a species we need to figure out how to implement a Star Trek sort of economy now.

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