• rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    6 hours ago

    Well I was hoping that we would jump straight to discussing the idea instead of spending time explaining it.

    I think that attributing ultimate cause, or authorship, or ownership, when it comes to things as serious as money, to be built upon shakey ground

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      6 hours ago

      If you’d explained things more articulately to begin with it would have saved you a lot of time!

      Ok, you’re not dismissing cause and effect as a whole (i.e. You believe if I pushed a domino over and it fell, I caused it to fall) but don’t believe cause and effect necessarily applies when the effect is the result of a transaction. There are often circumstances where multiple causes result in an effect. e.g. I hadn’t been sleeping well, hadn’t been eating properly and caught a cold, with the effect of failing an exam.

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        4 hours ago

        I really am doubting cause-effect here. I think it’s one of those useful dumbed-down cartoons we use to get from A to B and to satisfy our need for a coherent narrative.

        But more specifically, yes, the money associations. Shakiness compounded.