beauty and complexity of free market cooperation process, as told by a pencil
no single person can produce the common pencil
it takes a wild degree of cooperative market participants (and flourishes w/out central planning government agency or price fixing)
This essay is an under appreciated relic. đź’ś
“The configuration of creative human energies—millions of tiny know-hows configurating naturally and spontaneously in response to human necessity and desire and in the absence of any human masterminding!”
“The above is what I meant when writing, “If you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing.” For, if one is aware that these know-hows will naturally, yes, automatically, arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand— that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive master-minding—then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free people. Freedom is impossible without this faith.” 🔮
