Ok, so that’s a good argument that government monopoly is less good, in a global sense, than a system with more competition for services. My question is, what would happen in such a world? It might be globally better but locally worse because e.g. it reveals the actual issues in labor relations, rather than covering them up with unsustainable compromises born of an ongoing political conflict that just confuses the issue. I’m wondering how people think that wage negotiations would work out in such a world, and in particular whether there are arguments that the results would be Just or good or something. Rather than e.g. the wealthiest purchasing and then enforcing a monopoly on violent force, or the workers doing the same.
The basic idea is that without gov forcing out competition via monopoly the market provides arbitration services.
Ok, so that’s a good argument that government monopoly is less good, in a global sense, than a system with more competition for services. My question is, what would happen in such a world? It might be globally better but locally worse because e.g. it reveals the actual issues in labor relations, rather than covering them up with unsustainable compromises born of an ongoing political conflict that just confuses the issue. I’m wondering how people think that wage negotiations would work out in such a world, and in particular whether there are arguments that the results would be Just or good or something. Rather than e.g. the wealthiest purchasing and then enforcing a monopoly on violent force, or the workers doing the same.