Re: Evolution in action (was: Re Kidney-nappers)

Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@pigdog.org)
Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:18:06 -0700


Anders Sandberg writes:
> True. This is the major reason I don't think market solutions
> always produce the best results as perceived by human individuals;
> markets can organise to produce good results for other entities
> than humans, such as corporations.

Yes, this is true, but the only alternative usually presented
to market solutions is political solutions, which have the
exact same failings: political systems can organise to produce
good results for other entities than humans, such as
governments.

In my opinion, these two points cancel each other, and it is other
points that make me prefer market-mediated processes to politically
mediated processes.

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Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ expectation foils perception -pcd