1/ Leftist economics is like creationism. Rightist (in the sense of fascist-corporatist) is like Lamarckianism.
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2/ They lead to welfare and militarist flavors of cronyism respectively.
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3/ Critics of capitalism like to throw (unflattering) Darwinian metaphors around, but very little of that actually exists.
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4/ In a truly Darwinist economy, you wouldn't have corporations. They are NOT analogous to evolvable organisms if you think metaphor through
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5/ The only metaphor that works is product/service design IP as genotype, instances in use as phenotype.
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6/ For there to be "variation and natural selection" on these genes, the instances have to vary and survive differentially.
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