The Axiom of Choice

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An example. Whenever you fire up your internet browser, you cross a threshold of nearly infinite possibilities. Are you going to read sports commentary on ESPN? Buy groceries? Read 2+2? Watch dog porn? A billion other things? You could do any of them, but very few people are paralyzed by choice, hovering over their keyboards with a look of pained indecision on their faces. Why? Because the internet is the king of organized, guided information.

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No!

The internet itself is totaly DISorganized. Decentralized.

Some *individual sites* make it their business to provide organization - whether that organization is of "internal" data (a la Wikipedia) or external (a la google) or some mix of the two (yahoo) is interesting, but not a relevant distinction in the context of this thread. Further, there are tools that help in these orgnaizational tasks that are local (firefox) or remote (gmail). The point, though, is that none of this organization is inherent in the internet - it's all value that participants are adding *to* the Internet.

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The real point is that most people lack the ability to competently deal with all the options they are presented with.

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Yes! Think about how lost you'd be without all that stuff you mentioned. And it all emerged from the market, not from central planning.