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If something like water is scarce, it has to be used carefully and efficiently. A technology exists that optimizes efficient use of scarce resources. It's called a free market. On the other hand, an "authority" taking over the resource and metering it out ensures very different outcomes: black markets, elitism, cronyism, corruption, and use of violence to enforce the arrangement.
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