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To: jennyp
Yet with all our intelligence, it still evolved from simpler systems.

Every one of which evolved using our intelligence. No single person designed the car you drive.

317 posted on 10/18/2002 3:28:47 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC

Yet with all our intelligence, it still evolved from simpler systems.

Every one of which evolved using our intelligence. No single person designed the car you drive.

EXACTLY: Even with all the intelligence of people individually, the economy as a whole goes along & evolves beyond our ability to design it or predict where it's going!

And as Hayek argued in The Road to Serfdom as early as 1944, this is precisely why societies that adopt the planned economy in order to help their people's lives always fail. In time, they either have to admit that they can't plan their way to prosperity (because the wants/needs of the people keep changing unpredictably), or they have to abandon any respect they had for individual liberty and instead adopt more & more brutal dictatorship to keep the people's goals in line with the current Plans.

324 posted on 10/18/2002 3:44:02 PM PDT by jennyp
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