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C4SS  ·  4147 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When What’s Costly is Cheap — and Vice Versa

Some examples off the cuff, IP privileges that socialize costs and privatize profits like sanctioning generic drug manufacturing and raising access costs to technologies.

Perpetual war also bids up prices on first order goods as well as preferences corporate firms of cooperative ventures.

Energy and transportation subsidies also preference one set of infrastructural design priorities over others. The long-haul vs short-haul differentials kill larger extended firms while leaner smaller ones flourish. That is until the state steps in to preference one - the more legible ones - over the others.