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The Dead Hand Again

July 19, 2010 - 5:31 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Mel Williams
2010-07-20 07:55:57

A free market economy is like evolution – it’s ugly in practice but it optimizes. We’ve somehow lost the stomach for it. With success come hubris, and we now think we can optimize to an ideal, without having to have losers in the process.

We’ve become softies, in body and mind.