On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Mac Norton wrote:

Tim has identified the problems, including what may be the most important one, that the "market," unlike other such markets, is subject to gaming for motives that are other than economic.

Actually this is the fundamental failure of your view, Tim's, and most other CACL sorts. ALL markets are subject to parameters that are -not- subject to strictly economic motives. In fact a purely 'economic motive' isn't fundamentally about money, it's about either insecurity or power, it's about inter-personal relationships. It's about 'using'. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------