I weigh too much. The weight itself isn't the problem. It's more that
the pad of fat in my belly interferes with proper taiji breathing. Have
tried various dieting schemes and of course none of them worked over the
long-run. Hope springs eternal, of course. What makes the Shangri-La Diet more likely to succeed is that it has a
theory for why diets fail based on evoluntionary biology.
So, I'm gonna give it a try. First dose of ELOO last night. Not so
hungry for breakfast, but of course that's probably me fooling myself.
A the end of 2006 (literally) I posted on "Faith in Free
Markets". Through the (free market) miracle that is Google, I
found a blog posting by Jeremy Hunsinger objecting to
the possibility of saying anything about free markets, since all
markets have interventions, saying:
I'd love to know where they found a free market to have
faith in. I've never seen one that wasn't structured, biased or
otherwise guaranteed by governmental or corporate
structures.
Unfortunately, this idea exhibits a profound lack of understanding
of economics. Jeremy isn't the only person to make this claim. A
quick Google search for "no such thing as a free market" finds this and this
and this which
agree 100% with Jeremy, and are equally wrong. Economists rarely
study anything by itself. Economics isn't the study of one thing; it
is the study of one thing versus another. Economists try to figure
out what you'll give up of one thing in order to get another, and
why.
There's no point to objecting to advocacy for free markets by
pointing out there is no pure free market, free of any coercive
influence. We can compare more-free markets to less free markets, and
decide which ones we like. If we like more-free markets, then we
advocate for free markets, all the while realizing that the people who
like less free markets will prevent us from having a completely free
market.
It's not about free markets. It's about free-er markets.
