Seriously, Fortran77 column rules were easier than that....

Free Market != unregulated market. In fact an unregulated market often becomes a captured market, e.g. monopolies. Too bad most people confuse that.

Except for banking. And filing some legal papers. Education. Weather reporting. Checking commodity reports, which is very important to farmers. Rapid shipping of design documents to job sites. Those are just a few I can think of.

But companies often float bonds insured by the taxpayer, massively reducing upgrade costs. Besides profitability is no guarantee of service.

We also have utilities owed by members. Rural phone and electric providers, who serve areas for profit companies cannot due to lack of profitability.

An attempt to maximize stockholder value. Every decision made by the board and CEO of a public compamy is made by Wall Street. That is why you should never go public with your company.

Haven't heard of Godwin's Law have you?

And corporations are never incompetent or lie..

The designer only has a duty to the Corporation, blessed may it be, otherwise the blessing the Holy and True Free Market Capitalism will not be bestowed upon him. Any sense of obligation beyond that is Heresy and Saint Rand will surely become wroth with him.

Know the capacity of the aircraft. Count number of empty seats, a much easier task. Passengers=total seats-empty seats. It sounds like you would flunk a flight attendant interview....

Lots of drugs.

What's needed is a full accounting and transparency. Then and only then will people be able to make good decisions. And the private sector is guilty of cooking books and "selling" things as well, unless fear of regulators or lawsuits causes them to come clean. And that means personal responsibility from the managers who make the decisions.

Looks like all the customers will be paying more for their power.

I would start with us. Through action or inaction we got the government we deserved.

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