QuotePeople WISH money could be a constant store of value, but it can never be that because what it buys is not constant in its supply or in the demand for it.
You are not thinking like a Marxist. Change is the constant of the universe not stasis. All you are doing is making my point and stating that change exists. And since it exists, a planned economy would be better at producing a money supply that holds value than what we have now. Just saying it can never hold constant value is McFearson type negative thinking. (do nothing, it all is pointless, we all gonna die) Obviously some systems work better than others. Get comfortable with change and make the right kind.
I live in Seattle and am married to a woman with Haida in her family tree. I would not know what a potlatch is how? Her people started it.
QuoteThe status of any given family is raised not by who has the most resources, but by who distributes the most resources. The hosts demonstrate their wealth and prominence through giving away goods.
Destroying more wealth than your competitor also works.
It is notable that Argentina with one of the most screwed economies in the world has a nutball Libertarian in charge who rants about the evils of Socialism while he destroys his country by kicking all regulation to the curb. He has inflation up to 211.4% so far.