The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and "minoritie s"
John Kelsey
kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com
Mon Feb 24 18:56:32 PST 2003
At 10:31 AM 2/24/03 +0000, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
...
>Now, I may have left my clue home, so feel free to explain *why*
>100% capitalism (eg no state left, no other power) could never end up
>with power aggregation.
I don't think you can *ever* prove a claim like that, since you're dealing
with humans, who can be only very imperfectly modeled. There's no system
that couldn't possibly fall into some horrible state, whether that's
tyranny or chaos or lemming-like rush to an unwinnable war or ostrich-like
refusal to prepare for clearly oncoming war. Systems of human decision
makers are driven by the decisions made by those humans, and sometimes,
they're a bunch of idiots. More centralized decision-making has the ugly
property that a smaller set of decision-makers have to be idiots to run the
whole society into a ditch. On the other hand, more centralized
decision-making makes larger projects possible sometimes, especially ones
involving big, long wars.
>--
>Vincent Penquerc'h
--John Kelsey, kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com
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