[extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)

[Jef Allbright]

On 11/17/05, John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:
> Jack Parkinson <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com>
>
> > Using your logic I can be sure that elephants are more efficient than dogs
>
> No, but in today's environment you can be absolutely positively 100% certain
> that elephants are more efficient than mastodons.  There was a fellow by the
> name of Darwin who figured out how that works.

Interesting that misunderstanding of evolution accompanies
misunderstanding of economics.

Evolution does not say that today's organisms are necessarily more
efficient than those that went extinct.

I won't launch an (attempted) explanation at this time, since there's
already enough going on.

- Jef