European Tribune - Comments - In Defense of Monopoly

1. Elimination of waste of scarce resources

You cannot be serious.

European Tribune - Comments - In Defense of Monopoly

Elimination of corruption and influence peddling

A change only in the nature of the corruption and influence peddling, I think.

European Tribune - Comments - In Defense of Monopoly

Improvement in reliability of core infrastructure industries

Now that I give you.

European Tribune - Comments - In Defense of Monopoly

Stable earnings for investors

With an adequate regulatory regime, I give you that, too.

European Tribune - Comments - In Defense of Monopoly

Elimination of "me too" products and replacement by real innovation

Me too products, yes.

Real innovation - not conducive to management progress up the food chain. Far easier to take no chances.

I believe that it is now possible to develop a hybrid partnership-based "Not for Loss" monopoly enterprise model which will in practice give the benefits you claim for state sanctioned monopolies.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson