<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Even were that so, that would not be "Capitalism" making choices. It would be people acting in a market making choices. This is sort of like saying Science runs experiments or has debates. The truth is people run experiments and debate about the data or theory.</DIV>
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<DIV>And this brings up a more general point. It's not markets that do things. It's people. People act and when they interact voluntarily, markets are what we might see -- though markets are hardly the only form of voluntary interaction. When they interact involuntarily -- i.e., coercively -- what we see is statism or some form of one person or group abusing another person or group.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Dan</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, March 23, 2010 10:09:34 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] Don't be evil<BR></FONT><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2010/3/23 Dan <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com">dan_ust@yahoo.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV>A little quibble: "capitalism" doesn't do anything. (Neither does "socialism.") People do things. In this case, they did them seemingly through a market choice.</DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>Why, according to classical economic theory everything is a "market choice", reputation or righteousness having a market value themselves... :-)<BR><BR>-- <BR>Stefano Vaj<BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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