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neuromanta
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Ask HN: If you could 'reinvent' anything what wou...
I'd reinvent money, by making it vanish completely. It causes so much damage to people and the planet.
derefr
on July 27, 2009
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I'd reinvent money to represent the underlying trust metrics (e.g. Whuffie), or, even more directly, the prediction-market value of a person's life-potential, post-trust-investment. To put that more simply, "People's faith in X" would be a stock.
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