[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Magnus Berg <McMagnus at home.se>:

[Magnus]
> >> Yes. What was it you didn't follow?

[Platt] 
> > That I degrade participants in the free market to biological patterns. 
 
> Ah, ok. Because you elevate the free market into a "one society to rule 
> them all" status, you're also saying that the value of that society, 
> i.e. money, is the most important value for everyone in that society. 
> Nobody need to care about intellectual values or general quality, only 
> money. If anyone tries to advocate the value of an idea, it's only 
> judged by its social value, i.e. how much money it can generate. The 
> intellectual value of an idea is literally decapitated because the 
> social pattern can only see social value. This is immoral.

Hi Magnus,

Believing that the free market social pattern is better than the socialist
social pattern has nothing to do with intellectual values that I can see.
One need only cite the intellectual vitality of the U.S. vs. socialist
countries to squash the idea that free markets "decapitate" intellectual values.
 
> > So in your opinion the MOQ could be used to justify communism? 
> 
> :) As I said to Craig, I'm just trying to see what the MoQ might say 
> about different societies we've seen. The particular aspect of communism 
> I described above is only one aspect. There are lots of other that need 
> to be worked out as well to get a working society. I agree that the 
> communist societies we've seen on earth do need some work, but my main 
> point by being the (or at least your) devil's advocate is to show which 
> aspects of the free market that need to be tweaked to increase its MoQ 
> value.

That "communist societies we've seen on earth need some work" has to be the
understatement of century. But, I welcome your devil advocate role. It gives
me a chance to extol the virtues of individual freedom. 

Platt


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