James Webb telescope...Isn't space amazing! However...

All my family are NT and do seem to soak, and want to soak up all this information.

I am too tbh, but I kind of catch it in myself and hold it to account. And then fail to learn anthing new! More and more these days Im comfortable with not knowing something about socio-economics or political intricacies (NT brains seem to soak up all those fractals much more effectively) and saying so. Its not wilful ignorance, just prioritising what I want spend time ruminating on while my personal death clock  ticks ever louder. 

Sod it, I'm going to live on a remote Island and pay my way with chickens, bales of hay and handmade pottery items.

I would go with is

It becomes even more abstract when it comes to value of shares of a company, it's based on popularity

Especially when it becomes (or is?) an abstract one.

Money thing is a strange concept

I am rather naive when it comes to money and how it is 'distributed' by governments, councils etc. Actually I'm rather naive generally. It was wishful thinking on my part! 

Its a tough one. I take your point, but on the other hand it may be wishful thinking to think that money not spent on X automatically goes to Y. Also, 99% of everything that ever existed on Earth is extinct. Even  if we go that way too, the planet itself will be fine without us. A couple of centuries and nature will reclaim everything. In the meantime, evolutionary trajectory is politely showing us the door. Initially, ‘upwards’ to the stars, then when the limits of how far out there we can get are reached, we replicate that on a smaller scale with the technology discovered on the way: escaping these bodies and becoming something more. When I say we, I mean they - we will be long dead, and they will be functionally immortal. 

But first, discovery must pace its trajectory at the right speed: the title of this thread shows us how (two factions of thought), its just the ratios that shift. 

That's what I said when I saw it too.

That's why we have Hyperinflation.

don't take printed literally

Got you, thanks. It's hard to know these days what money actually has a base value. Perhaps they ought to get rid of printed (in the physical sense) money and save some trees :)

Printing money, with no base value. Known as Fiat Currency. 

Hello, I might be being thick but could you expand on that?

The US Government is a Printing Machine.