Re:How privatization increases inequality
by 08-15 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @08:22PM
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> Competition within the rail industry? I doubt it.
Not within the rail industry---ownership of the track network makes that impractical. I'm saying DB was protected from other modes of transportation, which ensured their monopoly. The service being sold is not rail transportation, it's transportation.
> The vast majority are bottled by either Coca Cola or Pepsi.
Looking from Germany, there are Vita-cola, Afri-cola, Fritz-kola. All independent from Coke or Pepsi, and that's only the colas I can think of. All sorts of lemonades serve the same market.
> See above
What?! Deutsche Bahn is a (near) monopoly precisely because of support from the police state, Coke/Pepsi is not a monopoly, not even close. Neither of these are examples of a monopoly that developed in a free market!
Not within the rail industry---ownership of the track network makes that impractical. I'm saying DB was protected from other modes of transportation, which ensured their monopoly. The service being sold is not rail transportation, it's transportation.
> The vast majority are bottled by either Coca Cola or Pepsi.
Looking from Germany, there are Vita-cola, Afri-cola, Fritz-kola. All independent from Coke or Pepsi, and that's only the colas I can think of. All sorts of lemonades serve the same market.
> See above
What?! Deutsche Bahn is a (near) monopoly precisely because of support from the police state, Coke/Pepsi is not a monopoly, not even close. Neither of these are examples of a monopoly that developed in a free market!