[FRIAM] Santa Fe's Sugar Tax

[glen ☣]

I think one of the useful arguments in this vein is the one often lobbed against the concept of a free market.  There is no such thing; and there will/can never be such a thing.  So, your question seems to assume there is a "true" economy by comparison to the "false" economies (or an upside right one vs an upside down one).  What makes you _believe_ ... where lies your faith in true or upside right economies?  Maybe your Utopian homunculus has broken free of its chains?

This is, I think, different from the "best of all possible world"... It's more like a rejection of a stable landscape.  There are no optima ... or perhaps all optima are local (in time, space, and sub-graph)?

On 04/25/2017 03:22 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> Will we have something like a thermal inversion  where all these false economies turn back right side up?  Or is this the "curmudgeon" in me thinking it is "wrong-side up".  I suppose there are (Panglossian?) arguments to be made: "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds>".   I hear this from many of my Trumpian friends (on topics like climate change denial, misogyny, etc.)

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☣ glen