[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[Magnus Berg]

Hi Platt

Platt Holden wrote:
> I demur. (I like that phrase.) The sole goal of the free market is to provide
> goods  and services that people under conditions of free choice will find 
> of value.

Hardly, if that was the sole goal, nobody would mind providing those goods for 
free. You're trying to rephrase it in such noble words, but the ultimate goal of 
providing those goods and services is to charge money for them.

> A society will always occur even if no larger than a family. Further, a 
> human society is needed to prevent biological forces from destroying the 
> fabric of human survival. 

I would actually not say it's required. I bet there are quite a number of people 
living completely alone in the wilderness all over the globe. They don't die 
just because they're separated from society, they can still think intellectual 
thoughts, etc.

> I'm promoting individual freedom within a social structure that keeps 
> biological forces of destruction at bay. Incidentally, Pirsig reserves 
> "society" as he uses the term to human society.

One of his mistakes, as I've tried to show in this thread.

	Magnus