[ExI] How slow is capitalism?

[Samantha Atkins]

On 04/26/2011 11:41 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Jones Murphy
> <morphy at alumni.caltech.edu>  wrote:
>> Keith, you're sounding like the old-school manual traders who hate
>> program trading as much as you do. How slow do trades need to be
>> before you'll consider them capitalism?
> You can call it capitalism if you want and I will call it a colossal
> waste of talent.
>
> But don't complain when you wake up one morning and the power is off
> for good along with the Internet and nobody has any idea of how much
> "money" they have because it was all recorded in magnetic dots on
> spinning disks.

You will blame the power being of on capitalism though or even on 
automatic trading rather than on government where I am quite certain 
almost all the blame actually belongs?