Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases

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[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sure, theoretically, in 'an infinitely large universe of perfectly rational consumers', Smith's magically benevolent invisible hand might arise.

But this is feels like some Capitalist version of that last bastion of Communist apologists, to claim that the reason it was so catastrophic towards human happiness is that all previously applied Communism was 'not true Communism!'

For societies to actually improve, where citizens can be freer and happier, we may want to start ignoring the two idiotic 'ism's that have plagued the 20th century (and certainly not to feel allegiance to them!) and to instead start looking for policies that actually make sense.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and to instead start looking for policies that actually make sense.

That's basically what I implied, didn't I? A world without intellectual property would also be interesting from an academic perspective. That is, if Coca Cola can produce cola, but only if all everyone knows the recipe and all their processes. I am not saying that we should switch to such a system in one day, but there are a lot of companies that do things in sub-optimal ways where I would love to work for an hour to fix their broken stuff, which right now isn't really practical.

If AI ever becomes a thing, I imagine that everything humanity has invented will be considered trivial and worthless by these machines. (This is also the vision of Stallman, which is why the GPL exists. Ironically, he stole most of Emacs, however. )