From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 14:13:48 MST
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:36 PM Mike Lorrey mlorrey@yahoo.com
wrote:
>> I don't want to trade insults here, but I would
>> like to reiterate the prices on a free market
>> are not really set by any one person or group
>> by by the interactions of various people and groups.
>
> Of course. I did not direct my insult at you, but at
> Mr. Sheppard (unless he is you).....
My comment on insults wasn't directed at you. I wanted to steer the
discussion away from insults -- even oens of social systems and
ideologies -- and toward a discussion of how price systems function.
Also, I think this can be brought back directly to the notion of
_extropy_. Free markets allow individuals and societies to maximize
social extropy -- or minimize social entropy -- much better than other
systems because their price systems allow higher levels of coordination.
Other systems, especially but not exclusively socialism, actually
prevent/coopt such coordination, making for more social entropy.
Cheers!
Dan
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Film recommendation: "All or Nothing" by Mike Leigh. Now in theaters.
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