Quote from: rainingbitcoins on July 28, 2011, 03:48:55 AM

Geico lizard, Flo the Progressive insurance lady, hell I barely even watch commercial TV anymore, but there's two off the top of my head. You're also paying for ads in trade magazines and other places you probably never look.

So you're saying that agencies, which advertise now, and offer affordable rates now, would be less affordable, when they had more services to offer, and thus more revenue, with the same advertising budget?

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Why would economies of scale not exist in the private market? Especially without government busting up monopolies?

They would, but you're still going to have duplicated efforts on major projects that end up just being a waste of money. Imagine sewer lines from five different companies running to every house in America. That's the kind of thing I'm referring to.

Not necessarily. One company could install the lines, and then other companies compete to maintain them. Compost toilets or collection toilets for compost companies could become more popular. Imagine that... people competing for your shit.

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Both of my local state parks charge for parking at the entrance, with parking fees going to pay for park upkeep and maintenance. What's to stop a private organization from doing the same? (even if they have to raise the fees a bit to cover lack of government funding, and maybe add fines for littering)

State parks across the U.S. are starting to have to charge more and more fees and drop services at the same time due to extreme budget cuts. But really that was just a silly quote from a libertarian character on a TV show. You're supposed to chuckle at the idea of paying a token to look at a duck. Apparently you think that's a good idea, though?

Well, that's an extreme example, most parks do not need a lot of maintenance, and so would not need to charge much per car (or parking pass).

Quote from: rainingbitcoins on July 28, 2011, 03:48:55 AM

Point is, libertarian ideas do get much more of a mainstream audience in corporate media because they aren't perceived as as much of a threat to those corporations. That's all. I do, of course, understand that this is more of a recent development and that as recently as the 1990s, those ideas were considered just as fringe as mine, but not anymore.

Well, no offense, but your ideas were tried. They didn't work... and catastrophically so.