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Bitcoin and Social Entropy | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 2 (WiM145)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Crucial Aspect of Cities

A city is not just skyscrapers or bouvards, it's despite the physicality of the city. The essential part of the city - and that's the whole point of a city - is people. And this aspect is crucial of cities. It creates instead of sublinear behavior, sublinear scaling, the bigger you are, the less per capita. Now it creates super linear behavior, the biggerYou are, the more per capita. So the bigger the city, the more social interactions per capita,. Therefore, the more ideas per capita, and therefore, you know, the more wealth per capita.

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