From: John Beckett 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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> > I saw a cartoon the other day which got me thinking about ID and how it's
> > incompatible with western capitalism. The whole point of the free market
> > is to promote improvements (growth, profits, innovations) by survival of
> > the fittest.
>
> I just don't get that -- market  evolution in any way, and free market
> doesn't strictly advocate survival of (only) the fittest, once you get rid
> of everyone else, no more free market.

Successful parasites have evolved so they (generally) do not damage the
victim sufficiently to impede propagation of the parasite.

There may be a parallel for anyone looking for an analogy between evolution
and capitalism.

John

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