a question

[Altruist]

It's a known scare tactic: "If the government didn't make bread... capitalists would charge you 1 million dollars per loaf. Then what? Huh?"

IRL this would make other entrepreneurs open bakeries with lower prices

and then they run out of business because their model is not profitable. until a new one shows up, where do you buy your bread? at the next least-expensive bakery, right? what does the said bakery do then, think - fuck, we should do what those guys before us did and go bankrupt or hey, it seems like people HAVE TO buy bread here, so why not raise the prices some more? of course the prices wouldnt go up indefinitely, THE FUCKING POINT IS YOU'D END UP FINANCIALLY WORSE OFF THAN IF YOU JUST PAID YOUR SHITTY TAXES IN THE FIRST PLACE AND, FOR SOME ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND PRODUCTS, YOU'D END UP SO MUCH WORSE OFF IT WOULD JEOPARDIZE YOU VERY EXISTENCE

this is all hypothetical in this specific example because the government doesn't make bread, obviously. bakeries and shops are private and not tax-income funded. dear god.

also, i have a question.