From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2009-04-19T20:59:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> I think you gravely misunderstand what "free market" means and have
> little or no idea what Smith said.  There's nothing in any Austrian
> economic theory or economic individualist philosophy that implies an
> economy is a giant chess game.  These are the beliefs, not of free market
> economists, but of Keynesian economists and similar interventionists.
>
>
>>
>> You will continue to have, and indeed _must_ have, some semblance of
>> intervention at the ruling party level.  It's simply a check against
>> what you think would be a balance.
>
> How you can say that with a straight face just after asserting that
> people aren't pawns in a giant chess game is beyond me.
>
> --
> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
> Quoth Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "A designer knows he has achieved
> perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is
> nothing left to take away."
>

I'm starting to think that you are talking so loud that I can't hear
what you're saying.

Todd