> I appreciate your reply but it blows my mind that the idea of better and worse is routinely rejected. I have to consider that. > free market absolutists ("t

> I appreciate your reply but it blows my mind that the idea of better and worse is routinely rejected. I have to consider that. > free market absolutists ("the market - the sum of supposedly infallible decisions - made me rich and made you poor") Whoa, hey... The market is supposed to be the infallible sum of individual decisions, not the other way around. :-D Of course, this still ignores truisms like "the market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent", or the existing exploitation of reliably-bad decision makers such as "whales" in Las Vegas casinos or Zynga games, marketing's "Harbingers of Failure" segment, etc.