Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior) Message-ID: <3689@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 14:48:27 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3689 Posted: Wed Sep 18 14:48:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 11:15:09 EDT Reply-To: josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 In article <761@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: >Great. Your brilliant working scheme sucessfully killed a platoon. >The whole rest of libertaria has been conquored, and you are surrounded. Great. Your grandiose world-conquering plan has been defeated by an uneasy Alliance of nations which don't even like each other, and you shoot yourself while your wife of an hour takes poison. You see, anybody can dream up bad situations and rhetorically place the other fellow in them... >> I'd personally favor an assassination defense... >... YOU are even more vulnerable, because of the openess of your society. >Mike Huybensz Exactly wrong, because a market doesn't have a leader. The whole point of this discussion is to compare a rigid command hierarchy to a decentralized, self-organizing market system. --JoSH