>>6117690>Faction / setting representation iconsI have a huge concept art folder dedicated to this hehe. I think the symbolism is very important. Pic related is one I found for my Isonomy faction in my space 4X/ttrpg hybrid COSMOGONY game (they are a society run by machine algorithms). I was trying to evoke that Deus Ex "hand grabbing the world" statue theme hehe.
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5817888/#5823886A lot of people often mention that the "Invisible Hand" a phrase originating from Adam Smith used commonly by economists to describe the role of markets, marketplaces as mechanisms for price discovery via self-interested transaction by individualistic agents (as opposed to say, central planning, government directive or intervention) a lot of people note that this phrase of the "Invisible Hand" may have originated from Macbeth (when he is contemplating murder and usurpation of the throne) because the profession of "economics" never existed in Adam Smith's time, he considered himself a moral philosopher and was actually more interested in trying to review literary and dramatic works, his writings on political economy were secondary, hehe
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-invisible-hand-william-shakespeare-influenced-adam-smith-180971905/>Smith was born precisely a century after the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the first authoritative collection of the Bard’s plays, including the occult play Macbeth. It’s from here that Smith found the phrase “invisible hand,” now inextricably tied to markets and capitalism.From Act 3, Scene 2:
LADY MACBETH:
What's to be done?
MACBETH:
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale!
