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It is great fun, when any previous authority is replaced by the logic of the market. What thrives, they say, deserves to thrive, what fails, deserves to fail.
by spython 11y ago
It is great fun, when any previous authority is replaced by the logic of the market. What thrives, they say, deserves to thrive, what fails, deserves to fail.
Their argument is, if people really wanted a better world, they would have it already.
Which is of course foolish, the market doesn't care about good or evil.
- mdpopescu 11y ago"The market" is people. You just said that people don't care about good or evil. I submit that this is an exaggeration.
- spython 11y agoThe market is not people, nor was it ever about people. It is about money and capital, and capital is not governed by moral principles.
- eevilspock 11y agoOh the market is about people when it commoditizes them, and that just makes the consequences even less moral.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoA comment phrasing it as "market is people", and then comment about commoditizing... it reminds me of Soylent Green, which also is people. ;).
- shrikant 11y agoIn philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is a process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that themselves do not exhibit such properties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence