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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 21:25:55 +1000
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On 9/05/2025 4:16 pm, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> john larkin wrote:
>>
>> Making money implies efficiency. And vice versa.
> 
> That's what the Left fundamentally fails to understand.

What the right fails to mention is that making money mostly involves 
cheating people. If you can do something more efficiently that other 
people you can make money out of it, but it's a lot easier to claim that 
you are more efficient and simply cheat.

The left goes in for detailed enquiries about what is actually going on, 
which the right like to characterise as officious invasions of privacy, 
and often subvert by tricks like regulatory capture.

Look up "rent-seeking" sometime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

That's what Trump's tariffs are doing for American manufacturers - they 
can suddenly 10% more (or whatever) for their products than their 
foreign  competitors, purely because they are American.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney