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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
I dunno if your idea of choice is to get four or five different companies to do exactly the same thing on the government's behalf, such as provide electricity. I have chocie here, but each company I can choose from is actually doing exactly the same thing... acting as a middle man between me (the consumer) and the government (the provider). Whether I use company A or company B, I get the same energy from the same plant. The only difference is the person I talk to on the phone and maybe the amount of money I pay.
So what's the point of this choice? To fool me into thinking there is competition? I can't think of any other reason.
That situation is a mess. It probably derives from people making decisions based on fear. A heavily government regulated system where the producers are for-profit appears to have the effect of maintaining a stasis in an already stable system while assuaging fears, yet it has no effect or just a very small effect of increasing quality. We've seen this sort of thing in other industries, where there is no improvement at all for a very long time because of government laws, yet "everybody" is happy because they have the same thing today that they did yesterday. Then when that law changes or a new adjacent substitute market opens up where private enterprise operates with little regulation, quality skyrockets.
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