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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by vezzy-fnord on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @01:52PM (#10548413)
That free markets ensure a Pareto optimal allocation of resources is the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics. It does not imply any normative statement on whether the distribution is "just", as that is very difficult to qualify.
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by thescriptkiddie on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:26PM (#10549035)
There's quite a bit of difference between pareto optimal and "most effective". In many situations, pareto optimality is actually among the worst of all possible outcomes (see the prisoner's dilemma, also local maxima). If you had used the former term in your comment it would have been more clear. As it is, it reads like a deliberate attempt to invoke poe's law.

EDIT: Oh wait, you're not the same person.

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