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The proof against what you are saying is the fact that the French government passed a law to force the market to be more "socially minded." If the "social-minde
by wuliwong 13y ago
The proof against what you are saying is the fact that the French government passed a law to force the market to be more "socially minded." If the "social-minded" European person was the majority, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
- cabalamat 13y ago> If the "social-minded" European person was the majority, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. If the social-minded person wasn't the majority, they wouldn't have elected a government that would pass such a law. It's a co-ordination problem: if one person does X, nothing much happens, but if everyone does X, it makes a difference. So each person, thinking as an individual, can rationally say, "It doesn't make sense for me to do X", but the same person can also rationally say "it does make sense for everyone to do X".
- ahomescu1 13y agoWhat you described sounds exactly like a prisoner's dilemma [1]. 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
- wuliwong 13y agoYou are kidding, right? The correlation between the elected officials in a country and the what the citizens want is much lower than the correlation between what an individual in that country wants and buys!