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> regulatory solution that makes the free market work The amount of cognitive dissonance in the comments here is astounding.
by mdpopescu 9y ago
> regulatory solution that makes the free market work
The amount of cognitive dissonance in the comments here is astounding.
- pedrocr 9y agoSo you think free markets work without regulation? Give a single example. Sniping vague comments doesn't help the discussion.
- mdpopescu 9y agoYes, by definition. I write a program for someone and give it to them. They give me money. There is zero need for regulation in this scenario.
- pedrocr 9y agoEven with such a vague description there are plenty of regulations involved. If you do your transaction electronically it is subject to several financial regulations. If you do it in cash there are regulations for those as well. The transaction itself only exists because of regulations. The "give it to them" part only exists because copyright is a well defined concept. There are no free markets without regulation, just chaos.
- mdpopescu 9y agoThe regulations you mention ARE NOT NEEDED for the market to work. (As an aside, I hate copyrights, and I consider them to be the biggest plague ever created in the world, with more wealth destroyed by it than anything else. My main employer KNOWS that I hate copyright, and he still pays me to write software.) I despair of the intelligence of human beings. I had to change what I wrote several times, because it was too filled with expletives.
- pedrocr 9y ago>I despair of the intelligence of human beings. I had to change what I wrote several times, because it was too filled with expletives. That's because you don't have an actual argument. Only strongly worded statements devoid of any data or reasoning from first principles while you call other people stupid.