Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mck-csc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!pesnta!amd!amdcad!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mck-csc!bmg From: bmg@mck-csc.UUCP (Bernard M. Gunther) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: re: Why not now Message-ID: <160@mck-csc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 15:26:04 EST Article-I.D.: mck-csc.160 Posted: Tue Nov 5 15:26:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 19:46:40 EST References: <156@mck-csc.UUCP> <28200254@inmet.UUCP> Organization: McKinsey & Company, Cambridge Systems Center Lines: 26 > > >/* Written 3:06 pm Oct 30, 1985 by bmg@mck-csc in inmet:net.politics.t */ > >/* ---------- "Libertaria and info: why not now?" ---------- */ > >When I hear discussions about a libertarian society, I continually hear > >references to a vast information network which will provide information > >about any service at a reasonable price [reasonable having an upper limit > >of what I am currently paying in taxes]. [ I go one here (incorectly) about info not being available now for something like cars] [ I am then properly corrected on the subject.] The point I was trying to make is the cost of gaining such information is extremely high. Is it actually going to be cheaper to go out and access this sort of information every time it is to be needed than it is to have the information confirmed for every supplier. If this isn't clear, take the case of doctors. Is it cheaper for me to investigate a Large number of possible doctors and look into their history and get references and contact these references, etc. than it is for me to support a lisensing board which specifies a certain minimum requirements and gives me some sort of recourse when these minimums are not met? Bernie Gunther