From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 24 1997 - 12:59:42 MST
I wrote:
> The most common concern about PPLs is that is that local competition
> will soon result in local authoritarian monopolies, which may be
> difficult to get rid of. This seems to be the result of protection
> agency like competition now in Russia.
Lee Daniel Crocker responded:
>In what way is it "difficult" to simply stop paying a private business?
>If you're going to raise objections to A-C, how about raising some that
>might actually exist instead of making them up? Russian mafias believe
>in territoriality; they are not a free market.
Huh? You think russian mafias are ideologues who would turn down a
chance to make a buck if it went against their religion? Come on!
If they thought they could make a buck by sharing territory they
would. And the expense of not buying protection from the only
available protection agency should be obvious.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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