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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
I have a wonderful idea. Why don't we just prevent collusion and price-fixing for books, but take tax dollars and subsidize book stores directly? Seems way more efficient, and effectively what the French minister and Stonetools would like in any event. If we're going to make a public good argument to weaken competition, might as well be upfront about using the public's money.
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I have an even better idea. Instead of subsidizing a useless old fashioned book store and its owners and workers, why not just take these people out of their useless occupations and pay them to do useful work.
They can build roads, pick up trash, cut the grass in parks, do something that is beneficial to all.
Do we really need to keep the old book stores and buggy whip factories going?
If someone really wants to keep the old fashioned book store around but not enough to support them, we can put a few of them in museums. Maybe do a National Geographic special on them.