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I am reminded from the basic rights discussion in "The Moon is a harsh Mistress" So who is going to pay for it Tovarich?
by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
I am reminded from the basic rights discussion in "The Moon is a harsh Mistress" So who is going to pay for it Tovarich?
- weberc2 9y agoI find that most of the anti-market folks think of the free market as this evil system that keeps people from getting everything for free. If we could just abolish it, everyone could have everything they want by the power of friendship and rainbows and butterflies and love. Obviously the free market can't give everyone everything you want, but it's the best known vehicle for maximizing it.
- GCU-Empiricist 9y agoExactly. My usual thoughts on communism ect. as a a resource allocation paradigm are that they'll only work "post scarcity" and even then we'll all be chasing larger computational budgets.