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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19430)5/19/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
"In the US, the socio-economic majority decides, that just about the end of the story. "

Yeah, its like going to a restaurant where the menu was created by the advertisers, the manufacturers and everybody else that wants your dollar. Now as you scan this fabulous selection, you notice that what you really wanted isn't on the menu? So you order number 5 and everyone triumphantly exclaims, see...the customer has decided.

Clearly you don't understand how things work. New ideas emerge all the time and they are not on the menu. The economy is a time based emergent system which is not decided on by the socio-enonomic majority alone. There is a lot of path dependence systems of this kind which makes them sensitive to initial conditions.

We are discussing the construction of the menu (if you will). And the evolution of that socio-economic majority (whatever that means).

Let me paraphrase an anonymous quote which I like "The future is here now, its just not distributed evenly"

Thure
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