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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 12:49:43 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> It’s a little scary how dependent we are on single sources for things.
> The NC floods impacted both what’s apparently a single source of
> ultra-pure quartz and a major supplier of IV solution.

Free-market capitalism in action: all the alternative suppliers were wiped 
out of the market because they simply couldn’t compete.

> You would think we would have learned something from the great
> baby-formula shortage ...

Ah, but the lesson to be learned involves centralized planning. And who 
would do such planning, if not the Government? But isn’t that how 
Communism works?