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Inverted Signals
In the inverted world, markets crash upwards. People have more sex and less children. They go to school longer and learn less. Police protect the criminals, etc. But why does this phenomena exist?
In the inverted world, markets crash upwards. People have more sex and less children. They go to school longer and learn less. Police protect the criminals, etc. But why does this phenomena exist?
Institutions become inverted because they naturally demand to be local, but are turned inside out by the incentive structure of the global market.
We force markets to be global by jamming as much capital as possible into profit yielding incentive structures that ignore and ultimately, intentionally obscure their negative externalities.
By demanding increasing shareholder returns or improving KPI’s, the institution necessarily compromises on its original purpose, one step at a time (Goodheart’s Law). Eventually, it becomes completely inverted.
The inversion isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. It’s actually what they’re optimizing for. ‘But does it scale?’ Inversion has become a condition for financing. No global institution can actually scale. They can only become more efficient at disguising their failure.
What do you think social engineering is? Social engineering is an example of a strategy used by inverted institutions to disguise, and intentionally obscure their failures and negative externalities.
What people fail to see, is that the inversion is a signal from the market. ‘Too big to fail’ is a sign that something has gone terribly wrong. ‘Bailouts’ indicate a problem. ‘Onlyfans’ is nature essentially demanding a response to market failure.
An inverted institution can only learn inverted lessons. It emits only inverted signals. It can’t be any other way. But it demands a response, and the response is justified.
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