Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person

Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by orbifold on Thursday March 30, 2017 @03:52AM (#13993655)

Such arguments are such nonsense, that you should probably not make them without going into much more detail. It is common knowledge that almost all macro economic models we currently have are very crude approximations, so you are in no position to deduce anything with the certainty and "it's game theory" attitude that you seem to have.

In other words: Economics is not physics, there you say something like "Well, energy is always conserved" or "This does not work because of the second law of thermodynamics", you can't do that with "Game theory".

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by laughingman2 on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:23AM (#13995079)

Yeah, the people the very people who will snigger at someone selling "quantum healing" defend economic theories which have no scientific rigor. And the worse part is the dominant theories operate in a manner that they are self fulfilling.

Capitalism promotes monetary profits as the incentive because humans are self interested.

is one among them, but is it the other way around? Is the system manufacturing behaviors that it takes for as a cause?

I was reading Debt : The 5000 years, where the author, an anthropologists makes the case of how capitalism destroyed the communal behavior of tribes in different parts of the world.

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