Ponzi Pyramids

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Ponzi Pyramids -- of People, Populations, Pennies, and Penury

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http://www.csa.com/factsheets/humanpop-set-c.php.

SOCIAL PYRAMIDS:

An economic expansion is an increase in the level of economic activity, and of the goods and services available in the market place.

Of course, we assume a perspective from a human culture. After all, the total amount of matter and energy itself does not increase, but remains constant (although it is continuously subject to informational reorganization).

In that sense, an “economic expansion” occurs when we conceive (or believe?) that our interrelations have been “reduced” to an increasing sum of particular transactions, which, as a whole, fulfill our value quantifications in respect of a medium of price. Our economic market expands insofar as we, by our price associations, believe it has increased in gross value. However, the environment in which we entertain such belief does not increase in respect of its fundamental total of matter and energy.

In other words, much of “economics” has to do with a society’s or culture’s mental manipulations for how it comes to express or value its continuously churning reorganizations of matter, energy, and conceptualized information.

Our economic activity has to do with the extent to which we engage in mutual full faith and credit, through a symbolic medium of wampum (or money). Whether there is perceived an economic expansion or contraction has much to do with how our culture comes to allocate that which we are led or inspired to share in trusting and valuing. (Indeed, whether there actually exists any “physical” basis at all for that for which we barter has much to do with each spiritual individuals’s wilful faith and empathy.)

The civilizing faith, trust, credit, and empathy requisite to support and leverage our marketplace tends to become more and more difficult to sustain as we begin to believe that our economic market is contracting (or even collapsing).

Imagine trying to pedal across a terrain of roads made subject to an increasing number of random hills, volcanos, tollway stops, and unexpected detours. After awhile, many may become tempted to switch to an entirely different terrain, economy, or currency, perhaps tipping a panic or harsh correction.

Stresses will push many Associations to "evolve" for conspiring to trust in a common ability of members to abuse trust.

Thus, each system of mutual faith and credit will eventually collapse towards a replacement, even though germs and remains of the first will no doubt continue to migrate to, or infect, the second.

Such a symptology of social (“artificial”) economic stress and upheaval seems not altogether unlike a physical (“natural”) process of tectonic plate subduction with associated volcanization. In respect of random or unexpected violence, social pyramid processes seem comparable to natural volcanic processes. Both processes occur in cyclic respect of underlying causes, which may be delayed, diverted, or redistributed, but not stopped.

To stave or mitigate catastrophic upheavals, the moral challenge for our civilization pertains to whether, how, and when to try to effect temporal delays, diversions, and redistributions in the pyramid of human faith and trust. Nevertheless, there will be catastrophic upheavals.

In sum, intuition suggests we should pursue civilization that is satisfying, stable, sustainable, and amenable of surpassage. Helpful to appreciate, assimilate, and facilitate particulars in respect of such purpose is a basis for sharing empathetic faith, regardless of whether such faith-basis is rationalized in respect of "spiritual" terms or in respect of pursuing "logic" to a point of exhaustion in deference to secular tradition.