On 3/14/2011 10:01 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 05:19 PM, SA wrote:
>> They never say it in simple words, but the argument is this: In a
>> non-centrally-planned economy, the economy evolves without every
>> detail being consciously determined. Therefore we are unfree, slaves
>> to a machine we ourselves built.
>>
>> E.g., when Zuckerberg made Facebook, it set in motion disruptive
>> forces over which we have no control. If we were truly free,
>> Zuckerberg would have made Facebook as part of an integrally
>> configured 5 Year Plan, in which all the subsequently needed economic
>> adjustments would have been determined not through "blind economic
>> forces" but through democratically planned foresight.
>>
>> SA
>
> This is some pretty gruesome bullshit. Do you know anything at all
> about life in societies without commodities? (Hint: I'm not talking
> about the Soviet Union.)
Yes, it was nasty, brutish, and short, according to Hobbes.
Wait, which societies are we talking about? Can we try talking talking without the "hints"?
SA