Please give me a hand on this one
In a comment on my post about the NYC transit strike, Battlepanda asked about monopoly problems as a response to my pointing out that the massive disruption of urban life accompanying the strike was due to the MTA being a government monopoly.
I truthfully told her it would take a long post and then failed to provide one these past few days. I’ve been, as Tom Knapp would put it, “busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest”.
So how about it? Anyone want to post a condensed but thorough and principled argument against public monopolies in transportation services? There’s a wealth of scholarly material available on such matters, but it does take some work to boil it all down to the essential arguments, suitable for a blog post.
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Does this really take a lengthy post? Here’s the most important argument in twenty words or fewer: “It’s wrong to have people shot for helping folks get to work. Even if they don’t have a permission slip.”
An excellent point, and one I shouldn’t have neglected. I have to admit, though, that I was reaching for a succinct way to phrase a more utilitarian argument in this case (just for variety).