Sorry about the late response, East Marches...
The East Marches wrote:This comes more to an economics question than anything. How do you trust a market, or in this case people, if they never have access to perfect information?
I don't trust them. I expect error. There simply isn't a better alternative.
The East Marches wrote:We lack objectivity and are left with the scenario you previous mentioned. It is for this reason that I prefer finance to politics. Money is the best way of measuring outcomes because it affords some measure of objectivity. It gives us all a standard metric by which we can gauge things.
Money isn't the best measure simply because you find it convenient to discard all others. Money has no inherent objective value. It's value is intersubjective, and to some degree also subjective. In-fact, all value is subjective or at most intersubjective - which is essentially just a confluence of subjective values.
The East Marches wrote:Therefore we must go back to the basics and strip away all the subjectivity. One rule prevails over all: might makes right. What makes up might? The answer history gives is money. If that is the case then it is money that ought to really rule the day. Rather put, the best political system is one that makes the nation as a whole as wealthy as possible.
Firstly, you haven't stripped away the subjectivity at all. Like I said earlier, the value of money itself isn't objective - it is intersubjective.
Secondly, "makes the nation as a whole as wealthy as possible"? What does that mean? Increase the sum wealth of the nation's constituents? Because simply making the rich richer still would do that, even while virtually no-one else benefits. You completely neglect the question of distribution.
Thirdly, it sounds like "wealth" and "money" here are simply an indirect measure of power or influence - which is what it seems you really value. Although, power and influence are simply means to obtain or maintain an end so it's not actually clear what you really value as you've also neglected to say what you want the wealthy to do with their money.