I would have said the difference is that society can afford the government post offices to go bankrupt. It is possible. They keep consolidating locations and raising postage rates. Don't know if they'd have been better off without the competition. But we can't afford for competition to drive the public schools out of business or only the wealthy will get a basic education. But then I argued against myself saying that most likely towns would chose to cover for the poor kids on a local level, if that happened. I'm sure it's more complicated than that. I wasn't even sure what kind of reform he was suggesting until the last sentence of the "complexity relationship with simplicity" post. I do like his style of writing and it was thought provoking.
