On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Jan-Anders <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I see money and economy systems as pure intellectual matter. To be a good > economic man you must loose your social bonds and act rational. > > best > > J-A Hi J-A, I see rationality as an over-simplification of reality. Economics is a good example, something I would call monetized psychology. Due to the limits of our brain, we tend to choose, say, ten variables out of thousands that contribute to an event. Ignoring the rest, these ten variables are then used for explanation and prediction. Due to the limits of what we choose to look at, we derive false explanations and predictions. If the behavior of a society was purely dependent on creating wealth or finding comfort then it would be easy to predict. The problem is that it is a little bit more complicated than that, and finding all the variables and inputing them into a computer in the right ratios and magnitudes, along with the appropriate relationships (equations) is virtually impossible. Dependence on rationality tends to provide a false sense of knowledge, and believing that there are experts that can guide the economy is dangerous. The economy happens, then we try to explain what happened. Best to stay out of tampering with it. Cheers, Mark > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
