Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It?
by pdonis on Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:50PM
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> the best solution involves an outside party unilaterally establishing accepted rules of behaviour, forcing cooperation instead of defection.
This assumes that there is an outside party that (a) knows what the best rules of behavior are, which means it has to know when cooperation is in fact a net benefit; and (b) will in fact enforce those rules of behavior, and not be co-opted into enforcing other rules instead.
History shows that no such outside party ever actually exists.
This assumes that there is an outside party that (a) knows what the best rules of behavior are, which means it has to know when cooperation is in fact a net benefit; and (b) will in fact enforce those rules of behavior, and not be co-opted into enforcing other rules instead.
History shows that no such outside party ever actually exists.