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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/Jul/17 21:02, Owen DeLong wrote:</div>
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<pre wrap="">Let’s use a better analogy… This is more like a store being operated in a time of shortage.
Let’s use eggs for the example.
As a store owner, you know that there is a looming shortage of eggs because of some horrible
disease that has afflicted all of the local chickens and egg production is less than 1/4 of
normal.
Would you limit the number of cartons of eggs each customer can buy and prohibit customers from
getting in line again if they need more eggs? Would you tell the commercial bakery down the street
that you will not sell them 12 dozen eggs because you might have families coming in tomorrow that
might need eggs?
No, you’re going to pocket the cash as fast as you can and sell the eggs to whoever wants to buy
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Not to go completely off-topic, and certainly irrelevant to the
ongoing discussion about this policy proposal, but; I (and a few
others on this list, I'm sure) spent some of their early childhood
growing up during some kind of war in their country. For me, it was
when Obote was being ousted by Museveni, 1985, Uganda. Rationing of
goods and food was the norm at pretty much every shop, large and
small.<br>
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When I lived in Zimbabwe, 2005 - 2007, rationing of goods and food
was the norm at pretty much every shop, large and small.<br>
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Even now, in South Africa, there are certain items on the shelves -
in supermarkets - that will have a notice attached to them to limit
the number of units a single person can purchase, in case of a
national shortage, e.g., milk.<br>
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In pure capitalism theory, one wants to get rid of capacity as
quickly as possible, as it's cash in the hand and makes business
sense (the same way I want to get rid of as much bandwidth as I can
when I build that capacity). But as I've seen in recent decades, for
some reason or other, it isn't always the case.<br>
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Again, I'm just questioning the analogy, not the policy proposal...
still making my mind up about the latter.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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