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It just dawned on me that HydroRacer is the perfect example of the Free Market System at work.
This is what I mean. When you view HR through the Portal page, the newer threads float to the top, and the older threads continue to sink to the bottom, untill they fall off the page, sometimes never to be heard from again.
Now, one could say, that's the perfect self regulating, balanced, and most effecient model of a market that has ideal equilibrium.
It is uninterupted capitalism. I admit that instead of monetary exchange it is conversational exchange, But, the idea is still valid.
If a thread has what the marketplace wants, then it floats to the top, with repeated responses to the thread. If on the other hand, a thread sinks off the page? Then obviously it does not have the juice to keep the marketplace involved in the exchange and therefore sinks, position by position, until it is never seen again...Our own little version of Chapter 11, thereby making room in the market place for yet one more "Entrepenuer".
Perfection.
Until, someone in some governmental position of power, decides that it is in the interest of the "good of the masses" that equall opportunity is not as "just" as equal outcome, and that a thread with not enough on its own to keep it afloat should be given a more equitable status, and deems that it should be (in a way) subsidized to stay on the portal page.
Then what?
Well, what happens then is that the thread in question with not enough juice on its own, while still staying afloat, isn't read or responded to anyway...It turns into what one may call a "Zombie Thread".
So what you may ask? well the problem with that is that it now is occupying valuable real estate and not paying its fair share to the community any longer, and worse, is now making it even more difficult for a new entrepenuer to make his way to the top.
Also makes for some moral hazard, in so much as any number of other threads may request, or even demand that they be given like status, and on and on untill we have a manipulated system that eventually sucks the life out of the community...
Somewhat like a parasite...
Any similarity between this post and anything political is purely coincidental.
This is what I mean. When you view HR through the Portal page, the newer threads float to the top, and the older threads continue to sink to the bottom, untill they fall off the page, sometimes never to be heard from again.
Now, one could say, that's the perfect self regulating, balanced, and most effecient model of a market that has ideal equilibrium.
It is uninterupted capitalism. I admit that instead of monetary exchange it is conversational exchange, But, the idea is still valid.
If a thread has what the marketplace wants, then it floats to the top, with repeated responses to the thread. If on the other hand, a thread sinks off the page? Then obviously it does not have the juice to keep the marketplace involved in the exchange and therefore sinks, position by position, until it is never seen again...Our own little version of Chapter 11, thereby making room in the market place for yet one more "Entrepenuer".
Perfection.
Until, someone in some governmental position of power, decides that it is in the interest of the "good of the masses" that equall opportunity is not as "just" as equal outcome, and that a thread with not enough on its own to keep it afloat should be given a more equitable status, and deems that it should be (in a way) subsidized to stay on the portal page.
Then what?
Well, what happens then is that the thread in question with not enough juice on its own, while still staying afloat, isn't read or responded to anyway...It turns into what one may call a "Zombie Thread".
So what you may ask? well the problem with that is that it now is occupying valuable real estate and not paying its fair share to the community any longer, and worse, is now making it even more difficult for a new entrepenuer to make his way to the top.
Also makes for some moral hazard, in so much as any number of other threads may request, or even demand that they be given like status, and on and on untill we have a manipulated system that eventually sucks the life out of the community...
Somewhat like a parasite...
Any similarity between this post and anything political is purely coincidental.
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