Posted on 08/29/2015 12:05:41 PM PDT by MosesKnows
I am pondering the pros and cons of competition.
Interesting way to not answer my question.
While the statement: 'government is the only entity with a legal monopoly on the initiation of the use of force' sounds on its face an absolute statement, the founders agreed there is a higher law than the legal law, which is the Creator's law. That law, they held, justifies watering the tree to destroy the monopoly when it is abusive.
And that is the fundamental argument against monopolies: It is equivalent to absolute power, even if only within a certain context, and mankind + absolute power = abuse, this is axiomatic, which is why the only absolute power that should exist is one's exercise of power over his own life.
The Creator also pointed out than man is born sinful, without exception, hence his problem with absolute power, and hence the founders saying 'hey guys, once they start abusing this document, which they will, you have a duty to reign them in, and if you can't reign them in, start shooting, as we did at the Monopoly named King George.'
That goes for health care or education or anything else. When a monopoly is granted, such as a government's monopoly on the initiation of the use of force, it must be placed under the control of law. Once that law is no longer honored by the men at the helm of the monopoly, sooner or later there will be blood, regardless of anyone's opinion on why we should fear monopolies and cartel's.
Actually, we shouldn't fear them, we should merely understand them, and understand the nature of man, and if you understand those to things, you would naturally, without pondering it, avoid them whenever humanly possible.
People such as in the paragraph above are called 'conservatives.'
People who do not understand either or both 'monopoly' and 'nature of man' are called many names such as 'democrats' 'liberals' 'socialists' 'community activists' 'progressives' 'marxists.' But their leadership changes the name to hide the truth because of the following: People who understand both, and still speak in favor of them, are surely the ones who stand to benefit from them at the cost of the suffering of others, including their followers.
Those people are called 'evil'.
And that, children, is how is derived the tautology, 'all democrats are either ignorant or evil.'
Competition also results in innovation and efficiency. Ask those in countries like the old Soviet Union and Red China and some of the South American, parts of Africa and other Banana Republics what it’s like to live under a “monopoly” as far as government goes - same concept — huge waste and people become mere tools for those with the “monopolies”.
Free-market open competition provides a marvelous mechanism to control human greed.
Conversely to competition, Utilities, as their name implies, are a least cost provision of a commonly used commodity, thereby reducing the cost to produce all other commodities in society.
In order to control greed in the provision of utilities, regulation is required.
Competition removes the need for many regulatory frameworks.
The production of utilities frequently capitalized on economies of scale. The supply and availability of the utility is frequently observed to be orders of magnitude less costly than competitive provision.
In our lifetime “Capitalism” has become oppressive when it ceases to be “Capitalism” and becomes “CORPORATISM” the arch-enemy of “Capitalism”.
I was just listening to Naomi Kline. She made the big (ignorant) mistake of not understanding the difference between capitalism and corporatism aka mercantilism. Her entire rant was based on that ignorance of economics.
I consider that a very astute observation.
The point of my question was to ask this question.
Why are our politicians not advising competition to improve education and healthcare?
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I suspect because it is a requisite deep pocket which many corrupt politicians seek to tap into its revenue stream for their financing. Additionally, they want to control advances in neurological technologies in order to better control the masses to satiate their volition.
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