https://allenfarrington.medium.com/gauge-theory-does-not-fix-this-625f98de3246

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I'm trying to procrastinate 5 minutes before my work day and you post a Magnum opus like this?

I'm going to need a cigarette

tldr: Bitcoin is the base reality aka "physics" in Weinstein speak, and lightning is the local thing he's looking for (that can't exist without global physics). His criticism is valid, but not in the way he thinks it is.

Please don’t encourage him!

What I got from this is that arbitrage between the cost of input resources for producing something of value, and the revenue of the output is a key driving force in an economy (not simply corrections of minor imperfections tending towards a perfect equilibrium, as Weinstein apparently wants to believe for Gauge Theory). The economy can never be mathematized when its variables comprise a myriad of conscious beings with subjective intent, and far less so in an environment where the would-be yardstick ($) is itself floating in an unpredictable sea of the futile ambitions of a tiny subset of those conscious beings with their own subjective intent (Fed)