> Cbc] Mabel is peacefully laboring away in Kansas making whatevers. James
> is peacefully laboring away in Reims making whatevers. Jim's boss
> installs a new machine and suddenly Mabel's life in Kansas changes
> foreever. What Jim does thousands of miles away transforms Mabel's life.
> Everyy one on the planet is so linked in millions of ways with everyone
> else, that everyone is subject to forces that no one really understands
> and can control.
>
> This must stop. When we stop it. When we destroy those millions of
> interconnections that enslave us all, be ur wages high or low, we may
> find ourselves in a pickle. So be it. We, or our children or
> grandchildren will have to work it out the best that they can.
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Johann Becher creates the phlogiston theory. Years later Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier -amongst others- dismantle it. Becher's life's work is ruined.
The unintended will always be with us no matter what systems of contract and property we devise to drive the level of harm, coercion and authoritarianism in complex societies to as close to zero as people think they desire.
Perhaps after reading Postone you could take up chapters 3 & 4 of Michael Trebilcock's "The Limits of Freedom of Contract" in order to understand why a "stop the world until I have complete control over my environment" approach to organizing political life is doomed to fail.
Ian