Nice video, but @ 5:35 you mention "tax" when really this would have to be considered "profit", a tax or merchant fees is really a siphoning off and disrupting the energy of the upward feedback loop. Similarly, taxation can further compound a downward feedback loop. A little bit of tax or merchant fee is helpful as Govt of banking intermediaries are providing the platform of stable trade/economic activity but there comes a point where if it is too much than it is essentially just parasitic in nature
+Complexity Academy Yeah it's a fine line in understanding what is the feedback loop pattern and what is siphoning off from that, eg taxes and dividends (instead of re-investment) are siphoning off but a little bit may be of economic value, eg taxes help fund trade infrastructure and dividends help capital raising etc and the question is always what is the right balance. Keep up the good work on the videos, I enjoy them