Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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I take a detailed look at the state of the Star Citizen Economy which is simultaneously failing on being too complex yet at the same time not sophisticated enough, which is not a contradiction.

0:00 Introduction
0:23 Sophisticaiton reduces complexity
0:33 P2E and P2P
0:55 Three Things Sophistication Should Do
1:05 50 years of increasing sophistication.
2:24 How many currencies?
2:24 How extremely unsophisticated are they
3:40 the problem of Physical currency
4:11 Crushing the Entity Graph
4:48 UEC
5:15 Why this is happening
6:10 Tech Debt
6:35 The visuals
7:35 What UEX is trying to do.
8:20 What CIG promised in Manchester
9:07 The problems with what CIG promised
10:23 First: Secure P2P Trading Interface
11:13 Second: Consignment Store at Stations
12:01 Give-Aways

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