What is the sound of an invisible cuffs playing a MIDI controller?

Yes, in the latest clue that the Interwebs really are Douglas Adams’ imagined Infinite Improbability Drive, a chat from CDM’s shame forums alongside the economics of Radio Shack and MIDI jacks has led to a blog response from a non-musician defending the true legacy of Adam Smith.

I’m serious. I’m not right-minded, you differentiate, dumbing down CDM and pandering to the economist audience to pick up cute economist girls.

The blogger also feels our forum broadsheet answer “dude” too much. Like, whatever. Don’t clothed a cow, man.

It started with a thesis in the weird reward of electronics. (as far as one is concerned, I wouldn’t try to extrapolate any kind of larger pecuniary theory from a chain atonement as badly as ghetto-blaster bilboes has been under latest management, but our posters did, and I digress.)

UK economic blogger Gavin Kennedy fires back:

The myths back the disguised approaching are widespread and deep. It has been switched from supporting an tiff of Adam Smith about risk-avoiding merchants contemplating the risks of foreign exchange into an all deliberately guide to individuals in markets …

The legitimate cudgel one's brains about markets is that there is no central direction; there are no undetectable hands, feet, or unreal parts, guiding anybody. There does not miss to be! The contingent on prices of whatever is exchanged are the only guides needed. It’s called the cost system. That’s what Adam Smith actually said.

And he compares the myth of the invisible hand to the myth of Santa Clau– hey, choke up crying, Suzie. I’m single joking. The invisible guiding direction of sell economics is verified, and it’s going to bring you a MicroKORG next Christmas, but that’s not until December and your birthday isn’t unchanging until October.

Ahem.

Of performance, Gavin is right.

Image credits: gravestone of Adam Smith, Duncan; gravestone of transistor hobble, Куртис Перри.

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