It certainly means something, it means that every time we make a system at scale, someone games it to exploit the rest, it’s just a question of how gaming the system looks, and how much we preserve a fluid dynamic where that can change over time.

I think we can have pretty decent progressive economic principles in essentially pure form in tight knit communities where everyone has a decently nuanced understanding of what everyone is doing for everyone, but scaling up those concepts to extend that to more loose economic relationships has proven elusive…