Being free to innovate and keep your own ideas to yourself sounds like it should be part of the free market though.
Forcing people to disclose their (mental) secrets seems bizarre.
Being free to innovate and keep your own ideas to yourself sounds like it should be part of the free market though.
Forcing people to disclose their (mental) secrets seems bizarre.
barsoap@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I’m not arguing for any policies, just explaining what would be necessary to make the theoretical model of the free market a reality in actual reality: It assumes perfect information and perfectly rational actors, it’s a tall order.
lud@lemm.ee 6 days ago
What definition are you going by?
barsoap@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Adam motherfucking Smith’s. He pioneered rational choice models in general.
lud@lemm.ee 5 days ago
And why should I listen to someone that defines a word differently than everyone else?