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>> as most economists will tell you, while competition in most markets is
>> efficient, it is unlikely to be so in the case of the provision of roads, were
>> the problem of a "wasteful duplication of infrastructure" - ie multiple roads
>> going between the same places - would arise. Yes, the socialists were always pointing out to me the problem of "wasteful
duplication of infrastructure".
- Several ISPs providing nearly identical infrastructure to win my ISP
patronage!
- Several tenderers preparing tenders for the same contract, which only
one would win! The waste!
- A whole string of coffee shops - in the same street!
- Many different car manufacturers producing similar, but incompatible
parts, and the dealers are so stupid they set up car yards next to each other!
Oh, the waste, the waste!
All of these were absent in the highly efficient an non-duplicative economy
of the Utopian People's Republic of Soviet Socialist Paradise! But there's
still hope! Socialism might still free us from this poverty-causing duplication
- Socialist Alliance are running in the upcoming election! Get real. What you call 'duplication' is one of the critical aspects of
competition and evolutionary improvement.
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