This was... all over Beta's head, frankly. She'd gone from being a tool in a bunch of trillionaires' arsenal (that a whole one of them occasionally even remembered was a person), on a spaceship where everyone just plugged into VR all the time anyway, to part of a small group in a primitive post-apocalyptic society where people (Aloy) hunted very large robot animals for materials they needed and used the metal shards off those kills as currency for everything they couldn't get themselves.

And she'd been given a thorough education in STEM fields, not economics, because what was the point of that when all she'd been intended to do was operate the machinery to wipe out all life on earth (again) before the trillionaires took it and fucked off to a new planet anyway?