In my govt. class we post on a wiki type page to get ideas out and talk about things, its pretty neat how my teacher has set everything up. However currently I am in a debate with a person in my class about Capitalism and its usefulness. I think that i’ve been doing pretty well so far but i’ve run …

Thank you JOhn James. I’ve been reading Hayek’s Law, Liberty, and Legislation. He goes into why it is a fallacy to think of capitalism as a “system” by using the analogy of language. No one invented language, it spontaneously arose over time.

The “man of system” from Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments “The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. …

+1 Very eloquently stated. Clayton - +1 Beautifully simple, thus powerful.

No one invented language, it spontaneously arose over time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban Maybe the original ones, but some are invented.

Oh excuse him. Perhaps he should have just said “No one invented a language that anyone uses”. [John Stossel - Spontaneous Order] (higher quality, full version here )

Language is, by definition, something used by people. No one has ever invented a natural language because by definition no one can invent a natural language. In a lecture by Steven Pinker he mentions lingual research that found that children raised without the benefit of speaking to adults who alre…

Oh alright, I was arguing a technicality, sorry. That is a nice video by the way. I’d like to get together a longer list of “systems” which have spontaneous order.

Norgath, could you please post her reply? We’re spoiling for another quarrel :stuck_out_tongue:

This is what I sent her but she hasn’t replied yet. “Capitalism and Communism share a flaw: although they work amazingly well on paper, in practice they break. Neither economic theory took into account human nature.” Not true at all, Communism and Socialism have been disproved by both theoretical …

Online debate with schoolmate in Govt. class

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John_James September 23, 2011, 6:03pm 21

Have some fun in here:

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/examples-of-spontaneous-order/18486

and see here, and here, and here

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