I got lost in the comment area...
And to give another form of variance to it :)
As for the behaviour of the system here, I think it's very difficult to call it a lively functioning system. From my point of view, it's not diverse enough in the way the people view and enter this sphere.
Every system regulates itself by growing or decaying. I assume that already at the beginning the necessary conditions for a diverse, multifaceted and species-rich growth did not exist and only a few species emerged. The whole thing reminds me a little of the biosphere project, which failed back then.
Even if people believe that they act according to pure economic principles, they still act rather emotionally, but believe that they act rationally. If emotional impulses meet other emotional impulses, but "think" of themselves as rational, you get a conflict. So the creators and the players made fun of the fact that they created the possibility of placing bots and automatisms between people, which made the whole thing an interaction between man and machine.
Man knows about his limitations, he knows about the unlimited possibilities of the machine. On some days it is certainly the case that the great joker shows you the absurdity, on others it seems to be bitterly serious. People are constantly changing how they look at this system and I think basically nobody really takes it seriously and it is consciously or unconsciously sabotaged. ... At least, I perceive it that way.
The virtuality of money becomes very clear in the Federal Reserve example, which is now becoming common knowledge that money is created out of nothing.
Since we are ourselves temporally limited material objects, permeated by the inexplicable subject, we know that infinity only functions mathematically and can be suspected spiritually, but our earthly existence does not correspond to this infinity on the limited planet Earth. There is therefore something unethical about the infinite multiplication of virtual currency, because it is unable to supply enough to the gullet of matter that is eternally new.
The fact is, therefore, that not all participants in a system will have the virtual money they desire. To renounce this completely voluntarily and to perceive it not as a sacrifice but as a blessing, because money "possesses" the annoying habit that one has to care a lot about it. As you can see here very well, it causes you endless headaches, embarrassment, calculations, considerations, fights and so on. A certain painful joy also seems to be associated with it. It's really hard not to get involved in this extensive interaction and stay with yourself.
Thank you for your insightful and original reply!
You're welcome and thank you. As always, I am late. That's my fate. :)