[ExI] The End of the Future

[Giulio Prisco]

The traditional political discourse is frozen in obsolete political
categories such as "Right" and "Left". The Right says that corporation
are good and governments are bad. The Left says that governments are
good and corporations are bad.

Only a few independent thinkers see the obvious, that big governments
and big corporations, and big banks, act together in perfect unison to
keep all the power and all the money for themselves.

I am against the current power monopoly of big governments, big
corporations and big banks, and wish to see power back in the hand of
the citizens where it belongs. Unfortunately these governments,
corporations and banks, acting together, have transformed the global
financial system into a huge Ponzi scam.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/10/4 Dennis May <dennislmay at yahoo.com>:
>> This information based view of the central
>> fallacy of central planning has been around
>> for a very long time.
>
> Yes, but this is contingent on an actual planning inefficiency.
>
> Which of course was simply a given, when something as large and
> complicated like the USSR used to be managed with punch-card systems
> at best (or, more likely, pencils, snail mail/teletype reporting,
> mechanical desktop calculators and file cabinets).
>
> We can still argue on the undesirability of a planned economy for
> other reasons, but I think we should realise that the computational
> superiority of markets is not a law of nature, and that some large
> corporations and conglomerates already manage manage  by now to be
> "planned economies" of a scale exceeding that of many state-nations,
> yet being "competitive" with their rivals.
>
> Basically, I accept your metaphor of markets as computing devices.
> Simply, you should consider the idea that they may be faster than some
> alternative scenarios, and slower than others.
>
> --
> Stefano Vaj
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