Progress Depends on Freedom

[Xerographica]

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"The moral of the story is that heterogeneous activity is essential.  Because the future is uncertain...we should hedge our bets by protecting individual freedom.  Doing so maximizes the variety of economic activity which maximizes discovery which maximizes progress."

Progress as a Function of Freedom

Passages on Progress

[DunkleSeele]

*mod hat on*
Xerographica, I approved your post so that people here can have a laugh. Next time I'll let our in-built spam filter do the job.

[Xerographica]

*mod hat on*
Xerographica, I approved your post so that people here can have a laugh. Next time I'll let our in-built spam filter do the job.

Perhaps you shouldn't be a moderator if you're incapable of separating your personal views from your moderator responsibilities. 

[AllPurposeAtheist]

You're a heretic Xero. Do you know how dangerous heresy is? Do you even know what heresy means?

[Hijiri Byakuren]

Perhaps you shouldn't be a moderator if you're incapable of separating your personal views from your moderator responsibilities. 

It has more to do with how consistently full of shit you tend to be.

[DunkleSeele]

Perhaps you shouldn't be a moderator if you're incapable of separating your personal views from your moderator responsibilities. 

My personal views? Look at the general responses you've got in all your threads. You're full of shit, period.

EDIT: Let me explain you something: this forum has a filter that puts potential spam posts in a "pending approval" status. While waiting for approval, posts aren't visible to the members, only to moderators and admins. Your OP was deemed as "suspect", therefore I (because I happened to be the first mod to see it) had to choose whether to delete it or approve it. If I acted based on my personal views, I'd have deleted it straight away. Still, as a moderator, I try to act for the good of the forum; and how could I deny the good, hard working members of this board a bit of fun with one of the local chew toys?

Enjoy.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Stop persecuting people who are full of shit. He could be merely constipated.

[DunkleSeele]

Stop persecuting people who are full of shit. He could be merely constipated.

No, I'm pretty sure he could fertilise the whole Sahara.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Hey! I got it! Our new religion!
The FOS movement or in general terms, the bowel movement! The problem is getting followers..

[stromboli]

 

[Green Bottle]

[/b QUOTE''     Perhaps you shouldn't be a moderator if you're incapable of separating your personal views from your moderator responsibilities. 

Perhaps you shouldnt be on this forum if you're incapable of intelligence or common sense...

[Xerographica]

My personal views? Look at the general responses you've got in all your threads. You're full of shit, period.

I'm full of shit?  And your proof is...?  Watch, let me show you how this works.

The economist Ha-Joon Chang wrote...

So I challenge my students to tell me one economic theory, Neo-Classical or Marxist or whatever, that can explain Singapore’s success. There is no such theory because Singaporean reality combines extreme elements of capitalism and socialism.

I proved that Ha-Joon Chang is full of shit by sharing a theory that he said didn't exist. 

This thread consists of people saying that I'm full of shit...but they miss the part where their claim is useless unless it's actually substantiated. 

It's entirely possible that I am full of shit...but simply claiming it doesn't make it so.  Thank goodness.

EDIT: Let me explain you something: this forum has a filter that puts potential spam posts in a "pending approval" status. While waiting for approval, posts aren't visible to the members, only to moderators and admins. Your OP was deemed as "suspect", therefore I (because I happened to be the first mod to see it) had to choose whether to delete it or approve it. If I acted based on my personal views, I'd have deleted it straight away. Still, as a moderator, I try to act for the good of the forum; and how could I deny the good, hard working members of this board a bit of fun with one of the local chew toys?

Enjoy.

Seriously?  Why are you explaining your past action when it's your threat of future action that is the issue?  Obviously you didn't delete this thread...but you threatened to delete the next one.  Maybe you were just trying to intimidate me into conforming my perspective to economically ignorant people like Hijiri Byakuren?   

What does Hijiri Byakuren know about economics?  Anything?  I don't want to conform to such ignorance. 

In this thread I shared my theory that progress is tied to freedom.  And so far nobody has even attempted to refute it.  None of you are capable of refuting it.  That's not a surprise at all. 

But keep on replying anyways.  Maybe eventually this thread will be noticed by somebody capable of articulating reasonably intelligent thoughts on my theory.  Unless you've driven everybody with critical thinking skills away.  That's entirely possible. 

[Hakurei Reimu]

The economist Ha-Joon Chang wrote...

I proved that Ha-Joon Chang is full of shit by sharing a theory that he said didn't exist.

Guessing doesn't count. It's just as much a theory as pointing out some old granny in Singapore waved a voodoo doll and credited that with success. Why do you deny the power of GrannyWithVoodooism?

[stromboli]

pragmatarianism is banned from wikipedia. How fucking pointless do you have to be to be banned from wikipedia?

[Hakurei Reimu]

Hentai is apparently more serious a topic than pragmatarianism. âˆ':3