On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:17:04 -0000 trep...@sigaint.org wrote: > How do you cope with the mathematical fact that, in general, > cooperative strategies are more efficient than competitive ones?
I don't think that is a 'mathematical fact' at all. Rather it's an example of cheap, flawed mathematical reductionism. > > I know of a place that for the past three decades have had one of the > most unregulated markets in the world (if not the most). What place is that. Actually, the whole world is getting more regulated by the day thanks to the americunt corporatists, the americunt government and their foreign lapgogs. Hey Sean Lynch, how's your google stock doing? > The tendency > has been that over time the market becomes concentrated in fewer and > fewer people that form cartels and use the concentrated power to > prevent new actors from entering the market. Since you are allegedly talking about the real world, start by naming the 'market'...Otherwise we have hearsay at best. > Currently, and thanks to > a few whistleblowers, it is known that the economic cartels have even > bought the government and the parliament, having government officials > and members of the parliament in its payroll. Ah, so it's not a free market at all but a regulated market in which corrupt businesses and corrupt politicians conspire to fuck all unpriviled consumers as much as they want. Well, that kind of COOPERATION is CRIMINAL COOPERATION, not what a free market is supposed to be. J.