On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Travis Watkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Remember: any resource that is controlled by a governmental or > non-profit organization will be driven more by politics(internal or > external) than by the needs of the customers. > > Regulations that limit the price for basic staples will only limit how > much is available of those staples. > > If you want there to be an abundance of resources available, just make > sure that there is a low barrier to entry into whatever market you are > looking at, and free-enterprise will ensure that any resource is > available and reliable. > > Just make sure that there are no monopolies and it is easy to change > providers, everything else will take care of itself. >
Which will require government regulation, because despite what the liberatarian fringe tells you, with out an external force, the market will collapse into a monopoly. For some things, the only economically effecient way to provide them will be a monopoly. (Consider the terraforming of a planet. It makes no sense to have more than one entity doing the actual project (it may make sense for them to have subcontractors doing particular parts of it, possibly on a competitve basis.). That's going to call for a government's control. (and if it's not the civil authority in charge, it's a corporate state.) > I personally would find it very frightening to be reliant on the > Government for the very air I breathe. > > On the other hand, if you want a totalitarian regime, then those would > be very effective controls on the population(In Total Recall, remember > how they decided to put down the rebellion against the Corp by just > turning off the air? You want to give that authority to a petty > bureaucrat with an unknown agenda?) > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Tom Sparks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am looking at writing a treaty that bans for-profit organizations from >> owning public utilities and life support device >> >> the public utilities i am think of are: >> water, Air (for life support), food >> free-to-air TV, radio >> Internet >> >> what rules would you put in place (Control Rating, etc)? >> >> tom_a_sparks >> >> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >> >> >> Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. >> Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox >> _______________________________________________ >> GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> >> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l >> > > > > -- > The man that holds fast to his bitterness will eventually be consumed > by it, but if you let it go, your arms will be free to seize the glory > that is life. > -Terwin > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
