User:RD/9k/wealth brain (Q30,68)

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Communities are cash wads
/ Groups of people containing a stack of gold are nothing more than a stack of gold that does stuff / human beings as wads of money with legs / wealth brain (motif) / reification (mentally converting groups of people into piles of money) -> the motif of people acting like cash or houses or donations are a genuine element of population dynamics or populational culture. exemplified by things like the Wings of Fire book where characters acted like a hunk of gold in and of itself produces basic needs and could in and of itself actually improve characters' lives if only the evil queen would let the hunk of gold be Free. it takes an expert to do any of those things, and the expert has to accept gold in the first place. the notion that gold is a badge for achieving high rank is what even makes it valuable.