[MD] Metaphysical issues: DQ

[Andre Broersen]

Hello All

Just woke up and finding flourishing activities  on the MoQ stock exchange.

To suggest that the "free" market is free because it allows for DQ is to
insult DQ.The market is not doing this.
The buying and selling of goods is a static pattern and the relations
between these is fed not by some concern for quality but by "What is the
maximum I can get out of this?"
And I would suggest it isn't particularly interested in following it
either...only occassionally.
The result of a DQ "event" results in the emerging of a static pattern that
was not there before.
Since when has the free market created something entirely new??? and BETTER?
Since the start of this century you can count them on the fingers of both
hands.
The "dynamic "part of the free market is the ever renewable apple which the
worm eats.It is capable of responding to small quality events. It is
"dynamic" because it has a mechanism built in that allows it to feed on
itself. The workings of the free market are a continuous repitition of
itself with only slight variations.
My clothes wear out and I need new ones, many items in this market have a
built-in expiry date: milk:2 days, my fridge:10 years, my house (if I had
one) 50 years (In Holland this is an officially agreed upon "expectation').
What I am saying is that it is dynamic in the sense that it is capable
of constantly reinvigorating itself doing the same thing over and over
again.

And it has back-up through the advertising industry spending 1000 million
dollars annually world wide (I read this somewhere...it is probably much
more. Again: in Holland it spends about €400 million annually!!! ) to
promoting itself and convincing people to buy things they don't really need.
It is not selling products so much as symbols. The function of something is
the last thing one promotes. It promotes the idea of celebrity status. "When
you buy this, wear that, live in this, drive that, eat this, subscribe to
that, etc etc you belong to trallalalala".

Sure it is dynamic but I am not convinced it has much Quality.

Am I out of line here?

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul. Where I end up well I think
only (Quality) really knows.
Andre