[extropy-chat] Futurist priorities was ex-tropical

[Brian Lee]

The Avantguardian said:
"I think I would have preferred a conspiracy, since this is kind of like 
fighting your way to front of the bus only to find that the bus driver isn't 
really driving, instead he is just "along for the ride" and the bus is out 
of control. After all market forces don't have thought or conscience and are 
incapable of setting goals and achieving them. Market forces place no value 
on survival of species, human or otherwise. They can only, like a runaway 
bus, continue forward until something stops them forcibly with catastrophic 
results."

The beauty of markets is that they don't need goals or anyone trying to "do 
the right thing". The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Merkets 
are the most efficient means of establishing a goal. They decrease overall 
costs and provide more benefit than any benevolent guiding counsel could 
provide. Look at the economic planning committees of the old USSR and China 
to see how planning fails where an open market succeeds.

Markets contribute to the survival of the species by providing lowest cost 
resources. The goal of the market doesn't have to be "benefit humanity" for 
the market to provide benefit.

BAL

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