Socialism

[crazy canuck]

To be clear this is the statement Yi made which I disagreed with.

We are still left with only one way to incentivize productive behavior: money.

Yi, do you still maintain that the only way to incentivize productive behavior is money?

[Jacob]

I think Yi meant that it's the only efficient way to incentivize productive behaviour on a macro-economic scale, rather than in the workplace.

[crazy canuck]

I think Yi meant that it's the only efficient way to incentivize productive behaviour on a macro-economic scale, rather than in the workplace.

If that is all he meant then sure.

[fhdz]

I guess that's a no then

[The Minsky Moment]

But all these other motivators still fail to deliver the output that the pricing mechanism does.  Just take a look at the explosion in Chinese GDP.

I think you are conflating a few things here: (1) a theory of individual choice and behavior, (2) an institutional market mechanism, (3) macro results.  May explain some of the confusion re your interloculators.

[CountDeMoney]

1. Seedy asks a (rhetorical?) question about the abolition of the market.

Not all that rhetorical.   But you knew that already.

[grumbler]

Ahh,  so you make a claim, I question the applicability, and the only options are "Look up my claim yourself" and "You are just rejecting anything I say!"

Are you sure there isn't some other possibilities in there?

How about the possibility that his data comes from a novel, but one based on the truth?

Would that make his data acceptable to you?