To: arun gera who wrote (77737 ) 8/14/2011 10:18:21 AM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Respond to Arun, it still looks to me as though you are doing the "all cultures are equal" thing. Yes, you are right that systems and incentives and whatnot have kept varying political systems more or less stable for long periods. But that doesn't make them equally good any more than ants having lasted as long as people makes them as good as people. There are qualitative differences. Simplistic Darwinian theory has it that everything alive today is equally successful, which is sort of true, but it lacks a certain something. If this financial structure fails, the mayhem that it would create would tarnish the empire's reputation in spite of 300 years of successes it has achieved. Unfortunately, the world has not yet created and tested a successful alternate to this structure. > Even if lots of banks go bust, the financial structure won't go away. Even if Greece and lots of countries default on debts, that doesn't destroy the financial structure. It just means people who thought they were owed something have got another think coming.
