Unless; there are other factors that make the activity profitable.
(and since you invoked Ricardo, well yeah, I'd be interested on what he would have to say, about keeping wages low by concentrating on low-price enabling goods, and its effects on things.)
Point being, I agree that enforcement is ridiculous. Game-theory-like mechanisms of 'willing collusion' are the way to do something like this. Setting up a system where the less profitable option is /not/ to participate is the way to do things like this. Now, how to do that, well, that's going to likely take a few game-changing technologies, both physical and systematic.
In short, we're looking at a conceptual scenario from opposite ends of the process. I'm saying we need new canal built, you're telling me that since shovels are evil, there should be no talk of canals.
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(and since you invoked Ricardo, well yeah, I'd be interested on what he would have to say, about keeping wages low by concentrating on low-price enabling goods, and its effects on things.)
Point being, I agree that enforcement is ridiculous. Game-theory-like mechanisms of 'willing collusion' are the way to do something like this. Setting up a system where the less profitable option is /not/ to participate is the way to do things like this. Now, how to do that, well, that's going to likely take a few game-changing technologies, both physical and systematic.
In short, we're looking at a conceptual scenario from opposite ends of the process. I'm saying we need new canal built, you're telling me that since shovels are evil, there should be no talk of canals.