Rants from an gamer

[Mr Khan]

vlad321 said:

Your last argument is a lot more along the lines of "teach to fish, give fish," in which case it is more practical to fix the problems in Africa than to just give them aid. That would require a lot more work than people want to put into it (because lo and behold, there is no immidiate pay off to it and capitalism is broken like that).

Honestly by far the best economic system, and from it social, would be to just find a solution as close to the optimum as possible given game thoery. Considering that the way we work right now is the way Nash pointed out, which is literally the explanation of how capitalism works, we should learn from his work and notice the optimum is different than his equilibrium. Basically, when everyone acts in their best interest the result is that the equillibrium is almost never the optimum result. We just have to find a way to put down the optimum result and then enforce it. It would solve many many problems.

Right, the problem being that optimum is what we endlessly debate in all the fields of philosophy or theology. Thus the only thing that could enforce the optimum at the end of the day is a dictatorship, and even then just their vision of optimum...