Sure, but in the realm of the pwork thought experiment these regimes have a monetary incentive -- if you disallow exit, you remove incentives for entrance, which means less inflowing capital, and thus stagnation & bankruptcy. So it's in the realm of possibility, expected even
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inherent, by definition.
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So the existence of the market guarantees that society is moving (perhaps asymptotically) towards some form of social optimum.
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you can't see the optima if you're not outside the topology. but there's an immanent criteria of selection (which is obscure, but generally understood as "efficiency").
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"efficiency" is an interesting term. in economics the meaning is reasonably clear whereas here thats not the case, it seems much more ... circular
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is there inefficient survival, or (more to the point) efficient non-survival?
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In economic terms, certainly
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In terms of u/acc maybe not but then the question is how do you square social Darwinism with a philosophy of human extinction
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speciation.
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