• Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
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    20 days ago

    They aren’t imaginary, they just don’t mean anything. Not anything important anyway. It’s a measure of certain rich peoples’ rising or falling fortunes. They pick which group of rich people to represent in the number and that constantly changes.

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      19 days ago

      Monetary value, which is what those numbers represent, is entirely imaginary. It doesn’t exist outside of social context, i.e. in our minds.