Paul Spirito wrote:
Lizard wrote:
But what we actually have is countless pluralities voting to rob each other. The game would work, except for entropy, in the form of transaction costs. With each theft from one group to the other and back again, some money is lost -- so the tension between groups increases as each demands a larger share of a smaller pie.
No -- you've got it *almost* right -- the negotiating pluralities, entropy (as metaphor!), & all... but the pie is growing (at between 2% & 3% per annum). So nearly everyone's content -- enough not to shoot each other, anyway.
Close, but no cigar... Actually, life is a pyramid scheme, people exist to provide fodder for MLM marketing ventures, and I have 'dibs' on the last living tree. TruthMonger