Title Correction: Gold, Coins is 100% Inductive Reasoning. With a lot of IF/Then analysis.

This is why you can see even farmer societies hoard it — because they’re inductive maximalists. Inductive maximalism isn’t subtle at all; it’s blunt, literal, and that’s exactly why it can feel repugnant.

But we don’t live in that world anymore.

We live in a technocratic society where the games are far more sophisticated — the incentives are layered, the signaling is indirect, and power expresses itself through systems, not stockpiles.