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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by raverbashing on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:27AM (#15868730)
Donated organs are a scarce resource

Radio spectrum is a scarce resource

You can't solve those with market mechanisms

Electrical transmission and generation facilities are somewhat scarce and we all see how the "free marked" worked great in the Enron case there

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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by eru on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:19AM (#15869142)
Are you trolling?

Radio spectrum auctions are fairly commonplace these days.

Organ markets work reasonably well in Iran, and would be great for the rest of the world as well.

Electrical transmission and generation work really well in a market setting in most places that's been tried. What does Enron have to do with it?

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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by raverbashing on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:29AM (#15869462)
> What does Enron have to do with it?

Before accusing others of trolling make sure you understand the arguments presented, which you clearly don't.

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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by eru on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:42AM (#15913169)
Enron did some internal trading of energy. Or what else do you mean?
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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by harryh on Thursday December 07, 2017 @09:01AM (#15869998)
The lack of market mechanisms for organ donations has lead to an huge undersupply of them in the United States. It's literally causing a massive number of people to die that wouldn't under a more market oriented system.
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