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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by Frondo on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:42PM (#14714195)
No, it wouldn't, because that's the fantasy that libertarians always push that has no historical or contemporary basis for working as a society.

Sorry for being grumpy, but this is as useful a contribution as "Wouldn't it be better if we harnessed the power of house-elves to magic away our trash?"

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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by duncan_bayne on Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:18PM (#14714412)
... except that the vast majority of what society does is voluntary.

To extend your analogy: "The magic house-elves are already making our cars, writing our software, and growing our food. I wonder if we should pay them a bit more to cart away our trash too."

The house-elves shouldn't be doing the law enforcement or the Government (and in fact they _are_ right now, e.g. in the case of for-profit prisons and the Fed, and it's a disaster). But they're a bit under-utilised right now in some areas :)

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