Re:The death of neoliberalism from within
by dragonwriter on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:46PM
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> But I'm talking about the decision-making process.
So am I. The decision making process that goes into "social/political" things is pretty much economic.
> We don't decide whether global warming needs to be addressed using a profit-maximization algorithm.
Social/political decision making is aggregating individual efforts to maximize the world's alignment with each individual's own preferences.
There's no difference between this and economic decision making.
> It's a moral question.
"Morality" is just one subset of personal preferences against which people act to optimize. The distinction between it and other subsets of preferences (like "aesthetics", etc.) is arbitrary.
So am I. The decision making process that goes into "social/political" things is pretty much economic.
> We don't decide whether global warming needs to be addressed using a profit-maximization algorithm.
Social/political decision making is aggregating individual efforts to maximize the world's alignment with each individual's own preferences.
There's no difference between this and economic decision making.
> It's a moral question.
"Morality" is just one subset of personal preferences against which people act to optimize. The distinction between it and other subsets of preferences (like "aesthetics", etc.) is arbitrary.