Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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?
 

Antitrust. If there’s a single source, or only one or two sources of
something, it’s a monopoly. Break it up. Provide tax benefits for
competitors to locate in other parts of the country.

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Pete