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To: jennyp
The modern international free market economy is a marvelous, interconnected system.

I'm not disputing that -- What you didn't mention is that the entire free market economy is a human construct and therefore can't be compared to a single organism. The fact that humans alone among all the species on the planet have the capacity to create a "free-market economy" tells me that human ingenuity is not the result of a random process.

If you can find any evidence of monkeys in Africa buying and selling bananas on a futures market, I'll gladly concede the argument. Since you probably can't even imagine something as nonsensical as that (due to the inherent, permanent place that monkeys have as a form of life lower than humans), you'd have to say I've got a point.

109 posted on 06/07/2002 2:11:33 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Alberta's Child
If you can find any evidence of monkeys in Africa buying and selling bananas on a futures market, I'll gladly concede the argument.

All higher primates engage in peer group quid-pro-quo common pooling of various paired food resources, over long time frames, including human hunter-gatherers. Econometric demonstrations that this is a major, perhaps critical, survival trait abound. This not a hairsbreath different from buying and selling bananas on the futures market.

470 posted on 06/10/2002 1:58:50 PM PDT by donh
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