Dan Sheppard wrote:
Huge wrote:
On 2008-06-08, Dan Sheppard wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Theocracy, military dictatorship, Soviet style communism, all these star
with a preconception as to what is right and will work, and attempt to
create people to fit the perfect system,and thise ultimately end up
being totally repressive.
I agree with this,

Market based economies at least do not second guess societies shape:
what works tends to flourish and what doesn't falls by the wayside.
But I'm not so sure about this. Isn't this what futures and hedge
markets do?
No. Futures are a bet on which way the market will move, not an attempt to move
the market in a specific direction.

Is betting on society's shape not "second guessing society's shape"?

No, its first guessing, and knows that it is.

And its only for money.

Ideology is far more dangerus, as it dens;t guess which way society will
go, it decided s where society ought o go and then uses the most
inappropiate means to get it somewhere else entirely, usually.

It is, if you like, the difference between 'betting that by 1945 there
won't be a pole, gypsy, mental defective or jew left in Germany' and
actually lighting the gas.