Can you clarify what your point is? ChristianKl said that my proposal “creates a strong incentive for the government to make sure that the companies it owns can outcompete the other companies.” I partially agreed but gave one reason to disagree; namely, that the government isn’t profit-maximizing.
You seem to be asserting the opposite of what ChristianKl said, that is, that the government has no incentive to outcompete other companies. Can you explain why?
I’m saying that that is the case currently and agreeing with ChristianKI that that incentives pressure against that under your regime.
If, as you are proposing, being not-profit-maximizing is the reason USPS hasn’t driven FedEx out of business
and being not-profit-maximizing is the result of current incentives
and someone claims, as ChristianKI does, that the incentives for being not-profit-maximizing change under your proposed take-the-wealth regime
then the evidential weight of USPS not driving FedEx out of business under the current regime is weakened quite a bit since the very thing under question is that that will remain the case.
Can you clarify what your point is? ChristianKl said that my proposal “creates a strong incentive for the government to make sure that the companies it owns can outcompete the other companies.” I partially agreed but gave one reason to disagree; namely, that the government isn’t profit-maximizing.
You seem to be asserting the opposite of what ChristianKl said, that is, that the government has no incentive to outcompete other companies. Can you explain why?
I’m saying that that is the case currently and agreeing with ChristianKI that that incentives pressure against that under your regime.
If, as you are proposing, being not-profit-maximizing is the reason USPS hasn’t driven FedEx out of business
and being not-profit-maximizing is the result of current incentives
and someone claims, as ChristianKI does, that the incentives for being not-profit-maximizing change under your proposed take-the-wealth regime
then the evidential weight of USPS not driving FedEx out of business under the current regime is weakened quite a bit since the very thing under question is that that will remain the case.