“That’s why I’m concerned over the irony of the net generation, which has spawned a number of anti-Wall-Street movements and sentiments, to see people in this generation intuitively picking up trading practices that carry on every bit of foul legacy that offline traders have practiced before the net generation. It seems the more things change, the more they stay the same.”—Rick Falkvinge
“The invisible hand, in markets or in cultures, is way overblown. Its more of an invisible pinky finger.”—Poor Richard
“Productivity is the Achilles heel of capitalism because it forces ever more destructive competition; enrichment of the ‘winners’ and impoverishment of the ‘losers.’ Productivity does not lift all boats.”—susan the other
“One can also imagine ‘Marketplaces’ for public education, police protection, etc. The possibilities — and the rents — are limitless!”—Lambert Strether
“Just because they do not do so in the contemporary fashion of entrepreneurs it does not mean they are stuck in their ways or useless.”—Gianpiero Petriglieri
“the prevalence of financial services firms in the U.S. has an adverse effect on youngsters, offering a ‘gateway drug’ into more pernicious pathological states of materialism, obsessive greed, financial status anxiety and moral degeneration, which in turn can lead to criminal behavior and outright pathological pyschosis.”—craazyman
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