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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by baddox on Monday July 21, 2014 @05:07PM (#8065998)
> There's no inherent problem with publicly funded services

The scale of the problem isn't clear, but I would argue that the economic calculation problem is certainly an inherent problem with publicly funded services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by anigbrowl on Monday July 21, 2014 @07:38PM (#8066665)
That's predicated on the idea of all means production being state sponsored.
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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by baddox on Monday July 21, 2014 @07:48PM (#8066706)
I don't think that's the case. The scale of the problem would be proportional to the amount of production being state sponsored.
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