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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
In short, the idea of the government running a monopoly could actually work, IF it was a threat to the world of commerce - a consequence of having a monopoly in the first place. To prevent monopolies, make it be not in a company's best interest to become one.
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The problem with that solution is the current problem with the USPS. The government and beaurocrats don't like change or having to keep up with change, like the legal system relying on precedent. The government is also acting as the employer of last resort to keep the economy going. Similar to the great depression when the government created work programs, which was paid from the 70% tax rate of the monopoly trusts.
The government is horrible at managing utilities as well. I understand the electrical utility regulatory model, and it was created in the 1930's, way before new technologies were created, and the new ones are currently unregulated. Utilities have gone bankrupt based upon regulatory oversight and mandates.
Your solution is the government version of the data com ethernet standards committee, which I had the pleasure of working with one of its members back in my early 1990s data com finance career. The commercial industry standards method allows competition to drive out inefficiencies to commodity status, which is why CISCO is laying off thousands and changing its direction from low margin, low growth to other products and services. That benefits the consumer, but limits the growth life cycle of corporations. .
so lets bring this back to the developer, amenity fees and the CDD model, monopolistic qualities or government inefficient model?