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title: "❝Imagine a world in which the only way to get a soda is to get your…"
date: 2020-05-06
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# ❝Imagine a world in which the only way to get a soda is to get your…

*May 6, 2020 · Facebook*

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[https://paulromer.net/if-tests-were-sodas/](https://paulromer.net/if-tests-were-sodas/){target="_blank"}
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❝Imagine a world in which the only way to get a soda is to get your doctor to write a prescription. It costs \$20 per can. Your insurance company pays. The economy produces about 100,000 sodas each day.\
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If you lived in this world, do you think you could get people to scale up the production of soda to a level of millions of cans per day? It would be a challenge, but not because it is hard to produce and distribute soda.❞
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