Sorry, didn't realize I had to connect the dots some you seem to be a pretty well informed guy.
Your premise is flawed. There are many businesses that do not seek to maximize profit (Amazon's mission is to maximize customer focus) and no amount of asking individuals about their preference to make money will reflect the behaviour of entities. That's to say nothing of business who grow large enough to be profitable without having to solve every inefficiency in the system. There's such a thing as profitable enough and I'd argue subsidies encourage that.
Your premise is flawed. There are many businesses that do not seek to maximize profit (Amazon's mission is to maximize customer focus) and no amount of asking individuals about their preference to make money will reflect the behaviour of entities. That's to say nothing of business who grow large enough to be profitable without having to solve every inefficiency in the system. There's such a thing as profitable enough and I'd argue subsidies encourage that.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth