Trent W. Buck wrote:
Russell Coker wrote:
I think that private companies shouldn't own anything which is inherently anti-competitive or which is essential to the national interest. So we should have no private police, roads, water, gas, or phone lines. The term you're looking for is "natural monopoly".
Related to the benefits of REDUCTION of choice in infrastructure and public services; I some times wonder whether consumers wouldn't also be better off; if the choice of much design novelty; which is little more than "different from last month"; was constrained by some functional interface standards. The chaos of digital interfaces across TV remotes, mobile phones...etc even OS GUI's comes to mind ? regards Rohan McLeod