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[OngBonga]

Why do you think you don't have much option in these things?

Well, I have precisely one company delivering water to my taps. If I want to use a different company, then I need to move to their region.
Energy, well there's usually a handful of different companies, all providing you with the same energy at different complicated prices.
Rails, the other options are bus or car. Not really competition, is it? It's like saying Pepsi is competing with bottled water. Well not really, you want one or the other, you're not like hmm um which one hmm...

Can we make everything free and stimulate the economy even more?

Free is probably taking it too far, I was being extreme. But cheaper, certainly, especially off peak. And no you obviously can't make everything free, but if you can get people moving cheaply, then it's reasonable to assume consuming increases. It's like reducing business tax... it stimulates investment and ultimately increases tax revenue, while increasing business tax does the opposite.

You said there should be no profit, and one of your elements implies no profit (free).

Well there's plenty of bsuinesses that are capable of fitting out a train, for example. Maintenence will probably have to be outsourced to private interests, too. We'll never rid the system totally of profit, and that's probably not a bad thing.

[wufwugy]

Well, I have precisely one company delivering water to my taps. If I want to use a different company, then I need to move to their region.
Energy, well there's usually a handful of different companies, all providing you with the same energy at different complicated prices.
Rails, the other options are bus or car. Not really competition, is it? It's like saying Pepsi is competing with bottled water. Well not really, you want one or the other, you're not like hmm um which one hmm...

Do you suppose there would be monopolies in other industries if the law made them that way?

Free is probably taking it too far, I was being extreme. But cheaper

You're not proposing to make things cheaper by instituting a negative demand shock or a positive supply shock. So then the mechanism to make things cheaper is through increasing efficiency of allocation of resources. Do you have other ideas for how we could make things cheaper?

[OngBonga]

You're not wrong. Still, it depends on how much it costs. If a government education system costs 100 per head and results in 90 value per head, it's not worth it. We have to also account for what a private education system costs and benefits.

Well I guess Norway found a way to make it $90 per head and they get $100 per head back.

[wufwugy]

Well I guess Norway found a way to make it $90 per head and they get $100 per head back.

We don't know that since they're subsidized.

Probably what is happening is something like the government system costs 90 per head and benefits 100 per head while a private system would cost 75 per head and gain 110 per head.