Originally Posted by tito

It's tough really.

Originally Posted by tito

Who is "we"? You and I have nothing to do with the energy industry.

Originally Posted by tito

How would other companies gain from BTs investment? Trade secrets and patents exist.

Originally Posted by Westcountryman

So much for consumer choice then.



'We' is the human race.



They're called competition laws. Since telephone lines are natural monopolies, I don't think said laws will be going anywhere.

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."

Originally Posted by tito

The human race has no right to say what is invested in and what is used for energy. It is up to the people that own those assets and those intellects.

Originally Posted by tito

There has never existed a natural monopoly over communications.

Originally Posted by Westcountryman

Sure, until it begins to affect the rest of us. I want Earth to remain a habitable planet in the future, do you?



Sure there is. No country/government in their right mind is going to allow every company who want in on the telecommunications market to lay their own cables. Hence since there is only one system of cables, it's a 'natural' monopoly.

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."