Thinking about the end of the Net Book Agreement in the UK - a "price-fixing cartel", a "rent-seeking entity" - and just, wow, how great books have become since then, just an explosive flowering of art from writers getting handsomely paid for their work
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Just like the "potential energy" Uber liberated from those nasty rent-seeking cartels Or Reagan doing it to the air traffic controllers, thus bringing the benefits of free market competition to air safety and making air travel so much better
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"So now you'd give the Devil benefit of rent-seeking?" "Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the rent-seeking entities to get after the Devil?" "I'd cut down every rent-seeking entity in England to do that!"
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"Oh? And, when the last rent-seeking entity was down, and the Devil turned round on you – where would you hide, Roper, the rents all being flat?"
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"This country’s planted thick with price-fixing from coast to coast – man’s prices, not God’s – and, if you cut them down – and you’re just the man to do it – d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?"
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