Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

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?