http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html
Super talk by Matt Ridley at TED Global in Oxford this summer.
Super talk by Matt Ridley at TED Global in Oxford this summer.
Matt Ridley - when ideas have sex
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davek
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I'm not sure what was 'super' about it, tbh.
What's he done there other than to reinvent the wheel? The free movement and aggregate of ideas and inventions have made us a more complex society than hunter-gatherers. Yes...and?
And I cant believe he went through 16 minutes of talking about the division of labour without talking about Marx and/or how it's underscored by the ability of one group to control and order around other groups. Exploitation is the motive behind the division of labour and that's the base that free movement of trade is built upon.
But that analysis was never going to be forthcoming from an ex-Chairman of Northern Rock like Ridley - a man who's "high-risk, reckless business strategy" at the Rock, according to a Parliamentary sub-committee, was due to his belief in the need for less regulation and a fanatical zeal to ending the 'tyranny of bureaucratic control'. And the upshot of that unswerving belief in 'freedom of trade'? - that ballbag cost the British tax payer a £27 billion bailout from the government.
Have you got any more of these geniuses in the pipeline to *teach* us stuff Bruce?
What's he done there other than to reinvent the wheel? The free movement and aggregate of ideas and inventions have made us a more complex society than hunter-gatherers. Yes...and?
And I cant believe he went through 16 minutes of talking about the division of labour without talking about Marx and/or how it's underscored by the ability of one group to control and order around other groups. Exploitation is the motive behind the division of labour and that's the base that free movement of trade is built upon.
But that analysis was never going to be forthcoming from an ex-Chairman of Northern Rock like Ridley - a man who's "high-risk, reckless business strategy" at the Rock, according to a Parliamentary sub-committee, was due to his belief in the need for less regulation and a fanatical zeal to ending the 'tyranny of bureaucratic control'. And the upshot of that unswerving belief in 'freedom of trade'? - that ballbag cost the British tax payer a £27 billion bailout from the government.
Have you got any more of these geniuses in the pipeline to *teach* us stuff Bruce?
He's a scientist, not a banker Dave.
davek
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He was also a Chairman of Northern Rock advising them how to push that bank over the edge to oblivion.
I dont think we need any *insights* from him...on anything.
Fair enough. I didn't expect you to remove your head from the sand. If you don't believe anything he says presumably you don't like that whole evolution thing 
davek
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Head in the sand? I think that demeanour belongs to Mr Ridley: three years after a world banking crisis which he helped set in motion, he's advocating less regulation and more unbounded free trade.
Wouldn't that failure to adapt lead to extinction in the natural world?
Arf.
Wouldn't that failure to adapt lead to extinction in the natural world?
Arf.
Never mind Dave.
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