Libertarian Economic Logic (chart attached)

[jamesd at echeque.com]

> jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
>> The reason you need a boss to make a pencil is that almost no one knows
>> how to make pencils

On 2019-09-20 04:59, Punk wrote:
> 	unhinged nonsense

Let us see you make a pencil.

> 	by the way, arguments regarding the ANARCHIC and distributed nature of 'knowledge in society' are usually presented as arguments against central planning. Notice how the fascist shitbag donald is trying to turn them on their head.

They are arguments against one big central plan, arguments for having 
lots of plans by lots of people, rather than one big plan.  But to build 
a rocket, build a building, or make a pencil, or run a restaurant, the 
*restaurant* needs one man with one plan, and everyone working at the 
restaurant follows his plan.

A business, like a family, has to be internally socialist, has to be 
externally market oriented.  But that a father has to run his family 
does not mean it is a good idea for the King, or the family court, to 
run everyone's family.

Knowledge is necessarily distributed, but that does not mean that 
everyone knows everything.  It means that very few people know anything 
of value.  And those people have to run stuff, or stuff just does not 
get produced.

Recollect all the attempts to build a gun in a home workshop entirely 
from plastic and metal that was not already shaped into gun parts.

For a long time, no one could build a complete gun.  They always had to 
buy some of the parts, or else the gun would blow up. Eventually Ivan 
the Troll succeeded, using subtractive electrolytic machining on the 
parts that had to be made of high strength, high melting point, steel. 
But an awful lot of very talented people failed.