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No, I think they should be exposed to all kinds of ridiculous demands from the public. That's what happens absent any pricing information, because the service has been monopolized by government. It's a natural phenomenon that is the result of the unavoidable laws of economics. (And I don't mean "laws" as the sort discussed in Parliament.)
How about zero GBP for your services, public servants? Would that be better? What the public servants should do is stop characterizing the people's expectations as "unrealistic". The people have absolutely no idea what the service is worth, because they don't have to pay out-of-pocket for each instance when the service is rendered, and couldn't possibly know, through direct experience, how much more expense each additional demand creates.
Masochist-economists, the lot of them.
Oct 12, 2009, 8:50:55 PM
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