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Re:Was WeWork Ever Going to Work? by anoncake on Saturday October 05, 2019 @03:21PM (#21167388)
> Imagining a capitalist system composed of all rational actors, this problem would disappear completely.

No, not at all. The exploiters would just be better at exploiting.

Re:Was WeWork Ever Going to Work? by solipsism on Saturday October 05, 2019 @07:35PM (#21168695)
Uh, what?

In finance and economics, the greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants.

By definition... the problem disappears if actors are rational. This is not a contentious matter of argument. It's in the definition.

Re:Was WeWork Ever Going to Work? by wpietri on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:50AM (#21170072)
Not really, unless you mean it in some sort of religious sense. You still have information asymmetries, power asymmetries, different priors, and bounded rationality. Plus the inherent limitations of any system of decision making.