From: John Conover <john@email.johncon.com>
Subject: Re: Telecommunications & Infrastructure (was Re: The nature of capital (was: capitalist economics is NOT optimally efficient)
Date: 14 May 1999 19:37:29 -0000
Rowan Volvo writes:
> In article <WiS_2.2296$G3.91407@news14.ispnews.com>, <conover@rahul.net> wrote:
> >
> >Perhaps there isn't any answer to the question of what the perfect
> >social/economic system is.
> >
>
> The procedure seems to be "design the perfect system, put it in place,
> and then forget about it" anybody see a problem here?
>
Good idea. If anyone does have a problem-included in the design of the
perfect system will be ways of dealing with them. If there are many of
them, and they are organized, our perfect system will raise an army of
believers. Of course those that say we don't need any system at all,
because no system is the perfect system are more problematical since
they deal in oxymorons, and self-referential logical inconsistency.
Such indeterminisms are difficult to address, so for that, we can use
learned individuals for prejudgment-provided they are logically
consistent and believe that they are instituting the perfect system,
of course.
I bet we could make such concepts last for millenia.
Maybe we could even write a novel/satire about animals on a farm that
implement the perfect system as a tautology. It would be useful in
illustrating the game-theoretic implications of the Epic of Gilgamesh,
and how our perfect system surmounted the issues.
Just kidding, of course ...
John
BTW, I bet if we did "design the perfect system, put it in place, and
then forget about it" the marginal growth of the system's GDP would be
leptokurtotic, and the system would iterate with durations that have a
frequency distribution proportional to 1 / (t^k), k > 0 < 0.5, (but
very close to 0.5,) as the aggregate cooperate in the perfection of
the system, and finally move on to another more perfect system,
(naturally, as defined by economists-who discovered in antiquity the
utility in job security of defining perfect systems.) But I'm just
guessing-and kidding-of course.
--
John Conover, john@email.johncon.com, http://www.johncon.com/