| Re: How To Explain Things to Libertarians |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: James A. DonaldJames A. Donald Date: May 1, 2007 15:54
James A. Donald wrote:
>>>> There are no private monopolies, except those
>>>> created by state decree, nor are private
>>>> monopolies likely in practice.
Chris Holt:
>>> You'll have to remind me about the history of
>>> competing private water companies, how they all
>>> fought to lay a pipe to the door of the customer.
>>> Or we could go back to Rockefellar and oil, but I
>>> know you've dismissed that in the past so there's
>>> no real point.
Don Kresch
>> Especially since he never had a monopoly.
"chris.holt"
> He was working towards it, with his thugs.
He was working towards it by radically improving oil
refining technology, which enabled him to rapidly and
repeatedly cut the price of petrol. His "monopoly"
diminished once it was no longer possible to so rapidly
improve petrol refining, and no longer possible to so
rapidly reduce the price of petrol.
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http://www.jim.com/ James A. Donald
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