John Batchelor posted a short video starring Matt Ridley. Free trade and capitalism are the object, not the mouse.
Listen here: ten-thousand-years-now
I'll let John explain:
"Fundamental Adam Smith.
Am spending time on the PERC site in order to explore the energy boom
of the Bakken and its profound transformation of the American West, and
came across this recommendation on the PERC twitter site, from the
Zeitgeist confabs, a presentation by polymath and columnist Matt Ridley in the UK, posted mid December 2012. It is brief and to the point that
self-sufficiency is poverty (subsistence) and that cooperation and
trade are wealth-creating. The additional wry observation is that the
Macbookpro I am writing on, with the help of a wireless keyboard and
trackpad, are the products of a myriad trade network of natural
resources and manufacturing and rule-making that produce a tool that no
one person, or even several persons, could actually explain. This is
fundamental Adam Smith: trade is good, the invisible hand is always
busy, and wealth produces specialization that produces more wealth. It
occurs to me that this is all a YouTube demonstration of Matt Ridley's
signature summary that rational optimism about our children's children's
future is well advised."
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