Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design

Re:Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design by anonporridge on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:41PM (#30267023)

I'm inclined to agree, because I think our civilization should exist to serve humanity, not use humanity simply as another disposable cog in the machine.

But that's not the way our legal and political system actually works.

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Re:Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design by epgui on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:54PM (#30267155)

I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying, but you’re confusing “what is” for “what ought to be”. It’s Hume’s classic “is-ought problem”.

Edit: I’ve interpreted the second part of your comment as an objection to the first part, but if that wasn’t the intended message it’s my bad :)

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Re:Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design by anonporridge on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:03PM (#30267240)

I don't think I'm confusing the two.

I'm suggesting that what I think ought to be the way the world works in fact is not the way it actually works.

This is a criticism of our current system, not using it as a reason to dismiss the idea of changing it to something better.

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