Imagine your at a beach with some friends.
This is a very popular beach which during the summer is always full of people.
There are two ice cream sellers on this beach and each day they decide where along the beach they should set up their stall to get the most customers. Now if you think this over for long enough you will realise that eventually the ice cream sellers set up right next to each other in the middle, splitting the total customers in half.
But this sucks for you, clearly if they two stalls are 1/3 of the way in on either side they will still have the same amount of business but the you and your friends don't have nearly as far to walk.
Free markets lose man. The best ideas come from seeing whats wrong with something and finding something better. I can't wait for the next big economic idea, hopefully it will deal with equality in some way.
Yeah anyway,
I know I haven't blogged in a while, mostly because Sean hasn't nagged me enough... but this will be a self inspired blog. Really I should be studying for exams next week but they still seem light years away.
taka's anyone?
1 comment:
You'll come up with something man :D
Laws ensuring that the stores set up on the centres of the two third lines. Government intervention I guess?
Or...
We could team up. I'll find some way of connecting a person's conscience to a carcinogen releaser. So that if someone feels guilty, it may kill them. Knowing this, the person will have incentive to do the right thing - avoid guilt. Sure for the wrong reasons, but hey.
Enforce that as a law. Everyone must have these installed on their person. But really it is a placebo. No effect. But they don't know this.
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