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> Govts have no more inherent ability to be consistent than markets. Not so. Being consistent requires a redundant system. A redundant system is not the most
by tsally 18y ago
> Govts have no more inherent ability to be consistent than markets.
Not so. Being consistent requires a redundant system. A redundant system is not the most efficient one.
> Since markets create far fewer human rights violations than govts, markets are better here as well.
I will venture a guess and say that just as many human rights violations have been committed in the name of the free market than any government. Sweatshops anyone? But my point with that comment was not to argue semantics. It was to point out that you were arguing apples and oranges.
- dgordon 18y ago170 million murdered in genocides. Armenia, the Gulag, Auschwitz, the Great Leap Forward. Rwanda. Littler, still stark things like Varosha. World wars. In the 20th century alone. Can the market match that?