It's only plain common sense, if you come to think of it." "Are lines like this--and railways, and so on--owned by the State now?
I suppose so." The other shook his head.
"That was tried under Socialism," he said.

"It was one of their smaller failures.

You see, when competition ceases, effort ceases.

Human nature is human nature, after all.

The Socialists forgot that.