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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? by andrepd on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:14AM (#18501796)
Only the "brain" on your analogy is extremely inefficient at locating resources, and the people that compose it are utterly unsuited for that responsibility, driven by amoral greed (with no thought to other considerations), and in that place mostly by a mixture of birth and luck rather than competence.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? by closeparen on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:46PM (#18507734)
It turns out that resource allocation tuned to maximize value outperforms resource allocation tuned for fairness in terms of material standard of living.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? by openfuture on Thursday November 22, 2018 @09:16AM (#18510083)
It turns out that 'value' as defined by central banks treats the enslavement of the species as more valuable than the survival of the species.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? by closeparen on Thursday November 22, 2018 @09:21PM (#18513926)
Central planners don’t get to define value... that’s the point.
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