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But what if we don't have a free market, never have, and never will have. Also most misunderstand 'survival of the fittest' which Darwin never said. Evolution
by mempko 4y ago
But what if we don't have a free market, never have, and never will have. Also most misunderstand 'survival of the fittest' which Darwin never said.
Evolution is about creatures fitting to their environment. If you have a complex environment, you have complex animals. If you have a simple environment, you have simple animals. It has nothing to do with 'robustness' or 'strength' or any notion of 'good'.
Similarly, if free markets are an optimizing system, they are a deeply flawed one. The constraint of spot trades and singular prices. And of course externalities, make them poor at optimization where it matters. So if we had free markets (we don't), what 'optimal' is very constrained and simple relative to what people need.