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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Batch of Mirepoix
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:12:13 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-19, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:31:29 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton
><chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2025-02-19, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:11:23 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton
>>><chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 2025-02-19, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:48:35 -0500, Jill McQuown
>>>>><j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>People in this area have to hire private trash pickup.  No city or 
>>>>>>county trash pickup.  The major outfits (Republic Waste, Waste 
>>>>>>Management, Sunshine, etc.) do *not* pick up on holidays.  A local 
>>>>>>outfit does pick up on holidays and charges a hell of a lot less for the 
>>>>>>service.  Guess which one I use? ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> You have different garbage collection companies collecting garbage in
>>>>> the same street? That sounds insane.
>>>>
>>>>Free enterprise.  No central planning.  
>>>>
>>>>Some places also have more than one electric utility providing
>>>>power, using the same transmission lines.
>>>
>>> We have that with electricity and Internet too. But they don't have to
>>> send trucks and people here to do their thing.
>>
>>I suppose if it were inefficient, the market would take care of that.
>
> The market doesn't mind polluting.

Of course not.  Those externalities are shifted to the commons.
We could do something about that, but not in a country full of
people who are terribly afraid that someone else is going to get
(at taxpayer expense) something to which they are not entitled.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton