People find niche ways to use the system to make money but I guarantee that there is no single person on this planet who understands all flows of all goods and services and contracts and derivatives on top of those contracts and they way they are all affected by every single thing that happens everyday from politics to weather.
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Sure, but now we’re playing a game of semantics.
We could just as easily say that no one 100% understands physics because of the complexity involved, the puzzle of quantum gravity, string theory, etc etc.
But an equally true statement can be made that we do understand physics quite well because we have computers and airplanes and satellites.
This is what I mean about being reductive: if we call all of economics a lovecraftian bolus of incomprehensibility then we’re voluntarily blinding ourselves to a lot of other things.
I just think a lot of people mistake relative understanding as full understanding.
We probably understand less than 1% of the physics that underlies our reality.