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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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I think wealth is like a dust/gas cloud in space.
If small it dissipates into nothing, absorbed by larger gravity pools. Larger ones might grow into rocks or planets as they have enough gravity to be held together. The largest wealthpools are like stars, furious and all consuming. Sucking in mass and spitting out energy. Even bigger are the black holes of wealth which just more or less suck.
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It's an interesting analogy, but the sun also generates much of the energy that keeps our planets ecosystem alive. Granted also our molten core. But it's not black and white.
Still a pretty solid analogy, I feel like we live in a system with a blue giant that is going to collapse and nova soon tho. Less of a stable small yellow main sequence sun, economically.
Think a small cluster of yellow main sequence stars with several habitable planets would be the neatest (funnest, but maybe not the most efficient), and a noble 'engineering' task/goal. Tho, I guess stacking habitable planets is not as viable as spreading them out among several distant systems along different stages, as one sun will consume them all when it transitions into a red giant and starts burning helium.