>>91222948Everything I said goes to show that no, there is not a single number you could change that had that effect.
That's why I compared it with that: the creators showed us something just as non-sensical.
That number they supposedly changed would imply a much larger control, just the same way you can't make people love them without having a direct and severe influence on their brain.
>>91223326I like your line of thinking.
>We'd be forced to revert to some material standardIt kinda already is. Currencies are just for interchanging products, but the already existing infrastructure and goods have owners, and the military enforces soverignety, not only on galactic territory but abroad. Let's put the US as an example in all this. Their currency is used because they literally kill off people who try to use other currencies for exchanging oil.
I understand entirely what you say, the house of cards would fall fast. But the economy is an organic system that is flexible, there isn't a centralized server you could possibly fuck up.
What bothers me is that, as you said, there ARE ways to fuck it all up, but not through changing values, because everyone will agree to keep going like before, because nobody wants the economy to collapse.
you make it by changing decisions.
In the US example, let's say you want to pull a 360 noscope: convince Merkel to drop the petrodollar. if germoney, and the EU drop the petrodollar and start using their own fucking currency like they should to buy to then middle east, then EVERYONE in the ME would start using Euros, or Yens. So would everyone in south America, and before you know it within a year everyone will start having so much uncertainties the economy would be paralized. This means all countries that aren't self-sufficient when it comes to food would start stockpiling guns, everything gone to shit.
That's why Merkel would never try to topple the petrodolar, and if she did, she would be immediately removed from power.
