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What's wrong with making markets more efficient? It's the same as making code run faster, or making a user experience less painful in the sense it's improvement
by sskates 16y ago
What's wrong with making markets more efficient? It's the same as making code run faster, or making a user experience less painful in the sense it's improvement at the margins. Just because the value is less tangible doesn't mean it isn't real. At the end of the day, we could say that all programmers do is push bits over wires. How does this add social value?
- epistasis 16y agoThere's certainly nothing wrong with it, but if it's the best answer you give to a programmer when trying to attract hires, it's not going to sound very good. It would be like Google trying to attract top marketing talent by saying that they push 400 petabytes of IO a day. Certainly cool, but that's not what a person who's good at marketing is going to be interested in.