Abstractive Divergence is an Existential Risk

Money, the abstract representation of value, enables exchange, coordination, and information transmission across wide networks of entities, but the reduction to unidimensionality in conjugation with the game-theoretic dynamics of multiplayer zero-sum competition results in systemic divergence from the underlying collective preference set of the participants which scales in proportion to the depth of abstraction in play. Left uncurtailed, operating in an environment with finite carrying capacity, the externalized harms of this escalating divergence will eventually reach the level of existential threat.