I watched some of the Discovery Channel's special on the Chilean miners' rescue. I didn't catch all of what they said on the subject, but apparantly they rationed food, water to maximize use according to consumer need and used some sort of conflict resolution sceme that involved community participation and some sort of "time out" (ostracim?). Did anyone else catch this?
Of course, the miners weren't able to secede. (Or were they? hmm) But in any case, there was maximization of scarce resources and no all against all war (sorry Hobbes).
Capitalism saved the Miners - Mises Blog
Not to mention the role natural elites played in maintaining order, the one miner who was the eldest and had some medical training pretty much became their leader.
The fallacies of intellectual communism, a compilation - On the nature of power
I think this subject has alot of potential if we just knew more about it. Be on the look out for info...
That thread seemed to address a different subject, namely who gets credit for the rescue. Some thoughts:
1. Cooperation of governments in the rescue is exactly analogous to cooperation of the miners. Neither relationship involves coercion. Both interactions present examples of anarchy working harmoniously.
2. You can't compare the performance of the private sector with limited resources to the performance of government with unlimited resources, and you can't calculate oportunity cost.
Stranger: Not to mention the role natural elites played in maintaining order, the one miner who was the eldest and had some medical training pretty much became their leader.
this is exactly like in this tv show LOST!!!!
(english is not my native language, sorry for grammar.)
Stranger: Not to mention the role natural elites played in maintaining order, the one miner who was the eldest and had some medical training pretty much became their leader. this is exactly like in this tv show LOST!!!!
Except that the series finale didn't suck.
Haha, Joe. I agree he finale was awful. Actually I'd say the last 2 seasons were pretty rough in general.
That's how I saw the situation. It was just humanity working together to secure people in harm. No coercion necessary and the people with the means to save them did so.