Sujet : Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 03. Nov 2024, 22:23:52
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 12:49:43 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
It’s a little scary how dependent we are on single sources for things.
The NC floods impacted both what’s apparently a single source of
ultra-pure quartz and a major supplier of IV solution.
Free-market capitalism in action: all the alternative suppliers were wiped
out of the market because they simply couldn’t compete.
You would think we would have learned something from the great
baby-formula shortage ...
Ah, but the lesson to be learned involves centralized planning. And who
would do such planning, if not the Government? But isn’t that how
Communism works?
Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy