"Jay Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: Michael Gurstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Our Economic System: Badly Designed?
>> by Roberto Verzola*
>
>>Follow the design rules, and you get a system that is robust and
>>reliable. Violate the design rules, and you get a system that is
>>unreliable and crash-prone.
>
>This is a good piece. If it were possible to "design" a global system,
>Verzola is right: we could certainly design one that is better than the one
>we have now.
I've suggested here before, that if the world economy was given as a
problem for systems engineers to design, they 'd be able to put together
something which would work so much better than what we've got, it would
be unbelievable. However, there are obviously problems, the key one
being that it's not going to happen. As usual, the reason is that
"those who have the money and power necessary to change the system
are by that same criterion those with the greatest vested interest in
keeping things the way they are".
-Pete Vincent
