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Exactly. In ecological systems we don't get confused when a single species or type of cell replicates out of control and crowds out everything else. It's instan
by CPLX 6y ago
Exactly. In ecological systems we don't get confused when a single species or type of cell replicates out of control and crowds out everything else. It's instantly, and intuitively, understandable as a pathology. A lesson that seems to suddenly get forgotten when we see it happening in an economic ecosystem.
- comboy 6y agoRight? We would have never had humans in the first place without a government intervention when these replications were getting out of control!
- Kaveren 6y agosomething being popular and eliminating other options is not inherently bad. there is nothing wrong with one company acquiring a monopoly through superior service. you can attack amazon's behavior as anticompetitive, but that's not what you're doing here.
- crazygringo 6y agoSorry, but that's bad ecology. You're overlaying moral human values on an environment. Scientifically, it's simply evolutionary survival of the fittest. It's adaptation. By your argument, every sudden game-changing evolutionary leap was a pathology, which is obviously false. Plus, there is absolutely nothing "out of control" about Amazon either. Amazon's a private enterprise competing in the marketplace like any other. It's just doing a better job at it.
- CPLX 6y ago> You're overlaying moral human values on an environment. Indeed. > By your argument, every sudden game-changing evolutionary leap was a pathology, which is obviously false. The definition of pathology is always context-driven. Worth noting that a massive bacterial infection is a fantastic success from the perspective of the bacteria.