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Over on somebody elses Facebook I've stumbled into a discussion about insurance and the market. A friend who used to live in Texas has been taken to task by some of his former State Dwellers for his heretical views on insurance.
Anyway, I think we need a new form of Godwin to describe the point when a Libertarian says something like: I want to have a choice in who I mail with, I bet FedEx et al could do it better but they're bared from law.
Funny thing that. My brother used to be a senior bloke with DHL - that private global logistics company owned by the German Government... anyway, they regularly used to have to model business operations to see if they could run a conventional daily first class mail service in various countries and the conclusion was HELL NO!
They wanted to cherry pick certain things, like deliver all the monthly credit card statements for AmEx - where they'd be able to model the load and locations. Easy.
Move to running a nationwide daily postal operation and things get messy real quickly for your profit margin.
Which got me thinking: why is it that Libertarian types don't seem to notice when they're being screwed over and that what they think is competition is, at best, an illusion?
Anyway, I think we need a new form of Godwin to describe the point when a Libertarian says something like: I want to have a choice in who I mail with, I bet FedEx et al could do it better but they're bared from law.
Funny thing that. My brother used to be a senior bloke with DHL - that private global logistics company owned by the German Government... anyway, they regularly used to have to model business operations to see if they could run a conventional daily first class mail service in various countries and the conclusion was HELL NO!
They wanted to cherry pick certain things, like deliver all the monthly credit card statements for AmEx - where they'd be able to model the load and locations. Easy.
Move to running a nationwide daily postal operation and things get messy real quickly for your profit margin.
Which got me thinking: why is it that Libertarian types don't seem to notice when they're being screwed over and that what they think is competition is, at best, an illusion?
