[ExI] Belief in Market Efficiency

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2009/2/2 Fred C. Moulton <moulton at moulton.com>:

> Slavery is a serious problem and still exists in several places in the
> world.  The last slavery prosecution in the USA was during the 1950s.
> So I think that using slavery as a club to attack the concept of free
> markets is both intellectually indefensible and frankly sickening.
>
> And on the flip side to imply that anyone suggesting any sort of market
> regulation is one step from Stalinist labor camps is just as wrong.
>
> This is the Extropian list where I would expect a higher level of
> discourse to prevail.  But recently I have seen messages which would
> embarrass even a bunch of drunken college sophomores.

Not at all: it is a very important philosophical question. I don't
doubt that the pro-free market people on this list would oppose
slavery, but I see this as a compromise compromise of pure free market
principles.


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Stathis Papaioannou