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[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is just saying that capitalism is the best because it behaves like capitalism.

[–] nbafantest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not really. Markets are great at rewarding clever improvements. Other systems are not great at that.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can you quantify that statement in any way?

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Spoiler: he can't

[–] nbafantest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

"they align people’s incentives in ways that communicate where resources can be be used most efficiently, and give people reasons to come up with new ways of using existing resources."