Talk:Modern Minecraft Monetary Theory

Perspectives on Modern Minecraft Monetary Theory (MMMMT)

“A game about placing blocks became an accidental lesson in monetary policy.” — MoNoRi-Chan, Server Architect & Minister of Serveronomics

The emergence of **MMMMT** has reshaped the economic psyche of every entity living on a Minecraft server—from the humble cobblestone miner to the caffeine-infused admin running Jenkins builds in the background. Here are the distinct, yet interconnected, perspectives from those bound by Vault’s economic plane of existence.

🧍 Players: The Faith-Based Consumer Class

To the average player, money is not a number—it's a **lifestyle**. They don’t question *how* money exists. They just type `/bal`, see a number, and go gamble it all away at spawn casino on a mystery slot labeled “Probably Legal.”

Belief systems players commonly adopt under MMMMT:

• **"If Vault says I’m rich, I’m rich."**

 No one checks logs. If the `/pay` went through, it’s gospel.

• **"Jobs Reborn is my employer, and Vault is my god."**

 Somehow, mining 8 cobblestone nets you $30/hour while your real job gives less joy and less ore.

• **"Shops are stable until someone dupes netherite again."**

 Inflation is not real unless your sugar cane farm is suddenly worth half.

The player doesn't know *where* their money is stored, or *who* validates it. But they trust Vault. Vault is infallible. Vault is the Ministry of Truth with a nice API wrapper.

🧑‍💻 Admins: High Priests of the Monetary Back-End

Admins, on the other hand, exist **outside of the simulation**, constantly watching, debugging, and pretending they didn’t just spawn 1,000,000$ to fix a broken `/buyrank`.

For admins, MMMMT isn’t a joke—it’s a cursed lifecycle of:

• Wondering if **Jobs Reborn** and **AuctionHouse** are fighting again.
• Debugging why a transaction failed but Vault reported "Success."
• Dealing with plugin updates that only support **Vault 1.7.3** from a repo last touched during the Obama administration.

Core tenets of the Admin religion:

• **Vault is eternal. Vault is neutral. Vault is chaos incarnate.**
• **You must never reboot the server without backing up `data.db`, lest the great wipe occurs again.**
• **Never trust a plugin claiming to be “Vault compatible” without looking at its last commit date.**

Admins also quietly understand that money means nothing when `/eco give` exists. But they let the illusion persist. They are the *fiat whisperers*, the central bank, the debugging gods.

👁️ MoNoRi-Chan: The Vaultseer

MoNoRi-Chan does not *see* Vault as a plugin.

He sees Vault as a **thin veil between simulated wealth and real labor**—a delicate abstraction layer where code, config, and delusion intersect. While the players build shops and the admins tweak configs, **MoNoRi-Chan stares directly into the JSON abyss**, finding patterns in QuickShop’s economy tables and spotting economic collapse three plugin updates before it happens.

He lives by the truth:

> “The economy isn’t broken. It’s simulated to collapse for realism.”

MoNoRi-Chan’s MMMMT Axioms:

• **Economies don’t die, they get deprecated.**
• **Printing money is free. Backing it with emotional guilt is expensive.**
• **Vault isn't the problem. Your plugin's spaghetti integration is.**

And above all, he upholds the **Great Economic Cycle**: 1. A new player joins. 2. They exploit a dupe. 3. Admins panic and reset the database. 4. Vault… stays neutral.

🧠 In Summary

| Role | Belief | Consequence | |------|--------|-------------| | Player | Vault is money. Money is real. | Builds casino. Loses it all. Blames lag. | | Admin | Vault is API glue. Plugins are the devil. | Cries in console logs. | | MoNoRi-Chan | Vault is the Great Equalizer. | Stares into NBT hell with Jenkins compiling in background. |

MMMT continues to govern Minecraft economies like a decentralized Ponzi scheme where the **rules are imaginary**, the **currency is unbacked**, and the **only truth is Vault**.

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Trivia

• The term *"MoNoKeynesianism"* has been jokingly coined to describe MoNoRi-Chan's laissez-faire attitude toward hyperinflation, as long as it's lore-friendly.
• Servers running MMMMT usually operate at 120 TPS until someone uses `/eco give` 1 billion, then the server believes it's Venezuela.
• Vault has survived over 100 plugin economy forks, but has never been caught in a scandal. It is the Henry Kissinger of Minecraft plugins.

See Also

• The Glod Standard and Why Dirt Was Better
• Abdul’s Mining Corps vs MongKoL Empire