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- From: marks@halcyon.com (Peter Marks)
- Subject: Re: Libertarian Social Darwinism
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.195652.28482@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:56:52 GMT
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- jfh@yacht.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
-
- >Okay, here we go again.
- >
- > [repetition of the old flame deleted: how Capitalism and The Market are the
- > optimal way, and the rich are doing everone else a favor]
- >
- >It's high time you figured this out.
-
- Okay, here we go again.
-
- The Market is certainly an elegant and simple abstract model which seems to
- do a good job of explaining (in the way that models do this) some
- aspects of the world's behavior.
-
- What all the apologists (unwitting or otherwise) for the seemingly
- insatiable greed of the rich (and others) seem to forget is that any such
- model is a slave to its logical assumptions.
-
- The classical examples in the case of the Market Model are the positing of
- equal/perfect consumer knowledge, and ease of supplier entry. The trouble
- is that these axioms fail to hold precisely to the extent that the means of
- the players are different. And this is the case, no matter whether the
- initial difference was due to skill, drive, luck, physical intimidation, or
- inheritence.
-
- Even if there were some sense in which the Market model was the best among
- all simplistic models of human endeavor, they are ALL poor ways to live.
- Fortunately we are NOT restricted to living so.
-
- It's high time you figured this out.
-
- P-)
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