Here ya go. Phone numbers, names, street signs, the exact words in the last sentence, all gone in seven seconds, give or take. Decay is the rule. Yet meaning persists. And if it has any value, it grows.
Meaning is the valued cargo in our trains of thought.
The trains come and go, but their purpose is to leave goods on the platform. What we mean has nothing to do with what markets were about in the first place, or how they really work. The problem is that Business as Usual has been insulting its real markets for at least two centuries. Business as Usual could get away with those insults as long as markets didn't talk back. But now markets are not so remote and unreal.