RE: MD The Quality of Capitalism?

From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Sun Dec 12 2004 - 23:36:45 GMT

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    On 12 Dec 2004 at 17:33, Platt Holden wrote:

    DMB, MSH, All:

    > dmb says:
    > No, it only proves that this is the passage you've misinterpreted.
    > First of all, you give capitalism the edge for its dynamism when
    > Pirsig is clearly saying that neither had the metaphysical tools to
    > understand the nature of that force. You forget that capitalism is
    > only INADVERTANTLY correct.

    platt:
    You can shout INADVERTENTLY until you're blue in the face, but that
    doesn't change the fact that capitalism is morally superior because
    it's more Dynamic.

    msh says:
    Yep. I think dmb is off-point here.

    > Pirsig's point here is to explain why capitalist systems preform
    > better and that reason is UNKNOWN to the capitalists and have
    > include only as a lucky mistake.

    platt says:
    You can shout UNKNOWN and lucky mistake to the capitalists until the
    cows come home, but that doesn't change the fact capitalism is a
    better economic system because it's more Dynamic..

    msh says:
    And Platt's right here, as well. However, my position, and the
    reason I started this thread, is that it doesn't matter if free-
    market economies are more dynamic than planned economies, if such
    economies don't exist.

    I'm interested in looking at real-world economies in order to
    identify where they fail to respond to DQ, so that we can try to make
    them more responsive.

    Mark Steven Heyman (msh) 

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