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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Well, I have precisely one company delivering water to my taps. If I want to use a different company, then I need to move to their region.
Energy, well there's usually a handful of different companies, all providing you with the same energy at different complicated prices.
Rails, the other options are bus or car. Not really competition, is it? It's like saying Pepsi is competing with bottled water. Well not really, you want one or the other, you're not like hmm um which one hmm...
Do you suppose there would be monopolies in other industries if the law made them that way?
Free is probably taking it too far, I was being extreme. But cheaper
You're not proposing to make things cheaper by instituting a negative demand shock or a positive supply shock. So then the mechanism to make things cheaper is through increasing efficiency of allocation of resources. Do you have other ideas for how we could make things cheaper?
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