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Article #620417Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:48
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:48
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On 2018-02-11, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > In article <PM000564F...@aca4281c.ipt.aol.com>, > jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote: > >> "Free" means that the recipients have an infinite resource which >> causes no restrainst in the consumption of that resource. > > Nonetheless, all over Europe and even in Canada people get health care > for free, no payment at all at point of service, and they are > healthier than Americans and the overall cost is about 1/2 of ours. > > There are a lot of places where economy of scale matters. And there are a lot of places, where, due to bureaucracy, economy of scale breaks down. Indeed, this happens when any organization gets big enough. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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