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Re:FCC urged to investigate Verizon’s statements on utility ... by rayiner on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:18PM (#8881893)
> You can't "purchase" a public good

Sure you can. Indeed, one of the dominant theories of contemporary economics is that market failures in public goods should be handled by turning them into property rights and privatizing them.

Re:FCC urged to investigate Verizon’s statements on utility ... by zorpner on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:23PM (#8881924)
Take my statement as shorthand for "I don't believe that it's possible to purchase a public good and the economic theory that public goods should be privatized is legitimate only insofar as it would lead to desirable revolution". I'm happy to disagree, though -- it's not exactly a settled question and I doubt either of us are going to convince the other during this conversation.
Re:FCC urged to investigate Verizon’s statements on utility ... by wavefunction on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @05:40PM (#8883118)
Dominant among whom? People who want to gut public institutions and "The Commons" and carve up the spoils like post-Soviet kleptocrats for their own personal gain?

There is a large population of people (including many economists) who DON'T subscribe to your supposedly "dominant" theory.