None of the hyping media have noticed yet, but I am actually the only internet user.

Very tiring.

There are more than two ways. that is all.

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This.

The evolutionary fitness argument of markets is nice and all, but the reality is as above, and it impacts on many lives and wastes resources every day. Surely we can consider ways to improve this, perhaps by more democratic or crowd-sourced monitoring of key decisions. Egos can sometimes be dissolved by many eyes.

firstly, following the thread the argument was about a free job market, and the ability to fire at will. On your second point, I agree wholeheartedly - a great example that a "free market" is in fact a myth.

There have been more than two forms of government. Yours is not an argument for what we have, it is a resignation from improving society. surely we can do better?

So why in the real world are so many bad managers in business. Nice theory - doesn't relate in any way to my experience of businesses in US and Europe.

Sadly your example only works in some fields not all. The myth here is that of universal access. Works for some industries (e.g. pc manufacturer), not others e.g. transport (I want to go to one place, not any place).

Central provider has flaws too. Particularly where unmonitored (e.g. soviet style dictatorship). Can't we find a better way to manage finite resources that comes closer to democracy?

You are in a minority, and with respect, yours is not the problem to which the thread refers. I'd agree you are not particularly exploited, and probably have some nice shoes too - this says nothing in itself about the best way to run society.

Totally agree the specific case isn't free market. But interested in the wider debate. My experience is that the theory you state (and as I was taught), just doesn't appear to happen. From my working life, which I don't have any reason to believe has brought me in to contact with a particularly bad subset of people, poor performing people are often promoted, and massively inefficient business regularly carry on. Don't get me wrong I like the implied use of evolutionary theory, but I do not believe in the limited real world that it is the major factor. Many businesses work in isolated or limited gene pools, if i may abuse the metphor. Nor do I believe we should abbrogate responsibility for management of finite resources , or have the time (millions of generations) to allow such a crude tool to work.