I really like this idea on its own. Multiple public options providers for multiple different products. Water/Electricity should be government run imo; but for Food? Household items? I’d love to see a multitude of government-stamped collectives that we could support. Actually… this was exactly what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was attempting with his National Recovery Administration.
Yes. The key thing is that when the dominant actors in the space start rent seeking, the government should be responsible to step in with a minimal cost good enough alternative.
We have collective action through violence already. We should strive for collective action without the violence.
Even the rent-seekers are better off, if we can figure it out, because they don’t have to live in fear of being Brian Thompson-ed.
This is great point.
There should be a powerful collective owned provider run as a non profit for every basic need.
Innovators can still sell an improved more expensive option all they like.
Today’s “Innovators” hate this because they aren’t innovators, they’re rent seekers.
Real innovators aren’t afraid of competition.
I really like this idea on its own. Multiple public options providers for multiple different products. Water/Electricity should be government run imo; but for Food? Household items? I’d love to see a multitude of government-stamped collectives that we could support. Actually… this was exactly what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was attempting with his National Recovery Administration.
Yes. The key thing is that when the dominant actors in the space start rent seeking, the government should be responsible to step in with a minimal cost good enough alternative.
We have collective action through violence already. We should strive for collective action without the violence.
Even the rent-seekers are better off, if we can figure it out, because they don’t have to live in fear of being Brian Thompson-ed.