Science as a practice has been enormously beneficial to human beings. So has art in different but significant ways. Here I compare free markets (here defined as all voluntary exchange) and nation-states (the ideologically legitimated “Governments”) to scientific practice (“Science”) and art broadly defined. This is an exercise to see which comes closer to scientific practice and, by implication, potentially closer to the level of progress in science and art.

Mostly for the hell of it.

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