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Markets are as complicated as nature itself, and that complexity comes from scarcity. If you open a floodgate, there is a market for which water molecules will make it through first. Those nearest, those not in a grid lock, those in a solid vs liquid vs gaseous state, etc. If you add conscious decision making to processes bounded by scarcity, you get immeasurable complexity. The markets of the natural world brought the animal kingdom from amino acids. Natural selection is a market for gene participants to access scarce resources and propagate, and look what's come of it. Human language and slang is a shifting market for utility and signaling. Who you associate yourself with is a market bounded by extreme scarcity. Who makes you laugh, who listens, who you've known longest, who is physically nearest.

Freedom is markets and markets are complicated.




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