I wonder if there's a second visualization that complements this one. These layers explain how claims on value become increasingly abstract. But they don't show how value actually reaches people. Distribution isn't another layer of capitalism, it's the infrastructure that allows every layer to function. Roads, merchants, agent networks, logistics, and trusted local intermediaries are what reconnect financial abstractions to the physical economy.
That's why in many emerging markets, the bottleneck isn't capital or payments; it's distribution. We spend a lot of time mapping capital, but not enough mapping how it moves 👣
Sure. Albeit distribution systems are produced, and they have workers and suppliers and managers and shareholders (or they are publically provided, in which case the relations shift somewhat. I do plan to expand this model to show different specialist sectors of the economy (e.g. tech, retail, logistic etc), but the point right now is to show relations of production, and that extends to the relations of production of distribution systems
Very clever. Now animate it please.
I'll get onto it
I wonder if there's a second visualization that complements this one. These layers explain how claims on value become increasingly abstract. But they don't show how value actually reaches people. Distribution isn't another layer of capitalism, it's the infrastructure that allows every layer to function. Roads, merchants, agent networks, logistics, and trusted local intermediaries are what reconnect financial abstractions to the physical economy.
That's why in many emerging markets, the bottleneck isn't capital or payments; it's distribution. We spend a lot of time mapping capital, but not enough mapping how it moves 👣
Sure. Albeit distribution systems are produced, and they have workers and suppliers and managers and shareholders (or they are publically provided, in which case the relations shift somewhat. I do plan to expand this model to show different specialist sectors of the economy (e.g. tech, retail, logistic etc), but the point right now is to show relations of production, and that extends to the relations of production of distribution systems
I think you just designed Factorio2, massively multiplayer mode.