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I think you're misunderstanding what's being discussed. Two people trading money for guns is a net gain specifically for those two people, but is not necessaril
by aqme28 12y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what's being discussed. Two people trading money for guns is a net gain specifically for those two people, but is not necessarily a societal gain.
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- jerf 12y agoRead my message again, more closely.
- aqme28 12y agoIf you're referring to "...if you measure society by how much people believe they have...", I still don't agree with you. Transactions can cause externalities that can be a negative for third parties. If you're referring to something else, then I'm curious.
- jerf 12y ago(X -> Y) !-> X. Or, in English, "Saying if X then Y is not a claim that X is 'true'". So, if you measure society by how much people believe they have, then blah blah blah, is NOT a claim that such a measurement is "correct"... to the extent that a measurement even can be "correct" or "incorrect", rather than "useful" or "useless". Had you kept reading, you would have seen an acknowledgement of that in my next paragraph (which is still there if you'd like to check, HN posts can't be edited after an hour). Incidentally, it's going to be very hard to understand any sort of serious analysis of anything above the level of brute propaganda if you read (X -> Y) as a claim that X is true... you ought to consider the possibility you've been misreading lots of things for a long time. No sarcasm.