Comments on: A Note on Cleaned by Capitalism http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/a-note-on-cleaned-by-capitalism.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ann http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/a-note-on-cleaned-by-capitalism.html/comment-page-1#comment-180507 Ann Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:47:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6228#comment-180507 I don't think that's a valid definition, pollution should be defined as a type of unwanted aspect. E.g. light pollution and noise pollution, not necessarily bad for the environment but can be irritating. I don’t think that’s a valid definition, pollution should be defined as a type of unwanted aspect. E.g. light pollution and noise pollution, not necessarily bad for the environment but can be irritating.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/a-note-on-cleaned-by-capitalism.html/comment-page-1#comment-180193 Anonymous Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:25:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6228#comment-180193 Harry Pitka, one of the dog sled mail drivers that delivered the diphtheria serum to Nome in 1929, was over at my cabin on the Yukon River playing cribbage with me one day. I asked him, "Harry, you've been around since basically the stone age to the space age, what's the most amazing thing you've seen?" Harry responded, "No doubt about it, bug dope. You can't imagine what it was like in an Indian village before insect repellent and DDT. Everybody was lousy, everybody. Women spent most of their free time picking lice off of little kids. The whole summer was spent standing around a smudge trying to keep the mosquitoes and gnats off. People couldn't wait for winter and freedom from mosquitoes. Bedbugs gnawed on people every night. Yeah, bug dope is the neatest thing I've seen." Harry Pitka, one of the dog sled mail drivers that delivered the diphtheria serum to Nome in 1929, was over at my cabin on the Yukon River playing cribbage with me one day. I asked him, “Harry, you’ve been around since basically the stone age to the space age, what’s the most amazing thing you’ve seen?”

Harry responded, “No doubt about it, bug dope. You can’t imagine what it was like in an Indian village before insect repellent and DDT. Everybody was lousy, everybody. Women spent most of their free time picking lice off of little kids. The whole summer was spent standing around a smudge trying to keep the mosquitoes and gnats off. People couldn’t wait for winter and freedom from mosquitoes. Bedbugs gnawed on people every night. Yeah, bug dope is the neatest thing I’ve seen.”

]]> By: Per Kurowski http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/a-note-on-cleaned-by-capitalism.html/comment-page-1#comment-180187 Per Kurowski Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:30:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6228#comment-180187 No, just another case of overprotection Like imposing on the banks the credit rating agencies to guide their credit analisis Like printing out on your bottled water that it contains zero calories Like the mind boggling “be careful” swimming pool instructions I see around US pools. No, just another case of overprotection

Like imposing on the banks the credit rating agencies to guide their credit analisis

Like printing out on your bottled water that it contains zero calories

Like the mind boggling “be careful” swimming pool instructions I see around US pools.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/a-note-on-cleaned-by-capitalism.html/comment-page-1#comment-180180 Anonymous Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:18:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6228#comment-180180 Your first three paragraphs were hyperbolic, albeit still agreeable. What I absolutely cannot fathom is how you could hold such a perceptive understanding of socialism and then write this:"It is in the best interest of an enlightened firm, enlightenment which began to occur approximately the same time the means with which to actually build sewer systems and water treatment plants, to have employees and business partners who are healthy and fit to be productive."Which reveals a complete ignorance of the tragedy of the commons, which is the whole PROBLEM with socialism.Socialism's failure is that it imposes a commons, which is inevitably tragic. That doesn't mean the market doesn't still fail when there is an unimposed commons like the sea, the air, etc. You people mock the idea of market failures, but the driving concept behind market failures is the same as the driving concept behind the opposition to socialism - nobody has any incentive to do anything about it, so there is sub-optimal investment. Your first three paragraphs were hyperbolic, albeit still agreeable. What I absolutely cannot fathom is how you could hold such a perceptive understanding of socialism and then write this:”It is in the best interest of an enlightened firm, enlightenment which began to occur approximately the same time the means with which to actually build sewer systems and water treatment plants, to have employees and business partners who are healthy and fit to be productive.”Which reveals a complete ignorance of the tragedy of the commons, which is the whole PROBLEM with socialism.Socialism’s failure is that it imposes a commons, which is inevitably tragic. That doesn’t mean the market doesn’t still fail when there is an unimposed commons like the sea, the air, etc. You people mock the idea of market failures, but the driving concept behind market failures is the same as the driving concept behind the opposition to socialism – nobody has any incentive to do anything about it, so there is sub-optimal investment.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/a-note-on-cleaned-by-capitalism.html/comment-page-1#comment-180172 Anonymous Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:22:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6228#comment-180172 Occasionally--and for long blocks of time. Occasionally–and for long blocks of time.

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