Comment by TheOtherHobbes
2 months ago
What is a "natural market"?
Please explain with examples from nature.
Your argument begs the question. Attention is indeed scarce, but that's because ad tech has created an attention economy.
Assuming that advertising is the best use of human attention is - how can I put this politely? - really quite eccentric.
> Please explain with examples from nature.
In nature there is limited access to food, water, mates, and shelter.
Economizing is the process of dealing with scarce resources.
Economizing is a uniquely human delusion whereby you suddenly think that principles of human centric markets somehow ascend to a primal force of the universe and aren't just a coping mechanism we use to try to peaceably coexist with one another without sinking all our time into killing one another to decrease competition like the rest of the life on the planet.
Nature doesn't do markets. We do. If you apply market thinking to the wrong things, bad things happen. You don't serve the market. The market serves you.
> Economizing is a uniquely human delusion
No.
> Nature doesn't do markets. We do
Yes. It’s a social tool for coping with scarcity. Violence is another.