Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 9/05/2025 4:16 pm, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

john larkin wrote:

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Making money implies efficiency. And vice versa.

 That's what the Left fundamentally fails to understand.

What the right fails to mention is that making money mostly involves cheating people. If you can do something more efficiently that other people you can make money out of it, but it's a lot easier to claim that you are more efficient and simply cheat.
The left goes in for detailed enquiries about what is actually going on, which the right like to characterise as officious invasions of privacy, and often subvert by tricks like regulatory capture.
Look up "rent-seeking" sometime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
That's what Trump's tariffs are doing for American manufacturers - they can suddenly 10% more (or whatever) for their products than their foreign  competitors, purely because they are American.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney