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Re: most people do not need it said by DHRacer:oh, you mean the DARK AGES? Bubonic Plague and all that? People didn't look like they were doing too fine then. Sure but the life expectancy was you were lucky to get to 50. Of course working your ass off in a field for your king probably meant that obesity wasn't a big deal at the time. I think you missed my point...
People did "fine" without those things, but now they are NOT luxuries, they are necessities, and so too is broadband, though still climbing, it can no longer be considered a luxury, and is now almost required to survive in todays society... |
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 AreSee
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Atlanta, GA | quote:
it can no longer be considered a luxury, and is now almost required to survive in todays society...
Maybe if you're a 14 year old with no girlfriend. For the rest of us, BB is most certainly a luxury if for no other reason that the fact that you can get the same information with a dial up connection.
Here's an analogy and you tell me if it fits:
When I go to work I drive my car, but I could just as well take the bus. Car = luxury, bus = utility.
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 BoogeymanDrive it like you stole itPremium
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Seward, AK | I couldnt take the bus, it only runs from 8am till 9pm here, and I usually have to be to work by 6am, and the last bus to leave the store I work at doesnt go anywhere near my house, or even the town I live in. Good analogy for some major cities though, it just doesnt apply everywhere.
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join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO | reply to AreSee
There is no bus service where I live. |
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said by AreSee: quote:
it can no longer be considered a luxury, and is now almost required to survive in todays society...
Maybe if you're a 14 year old with no girlfriend. For the rest of us, BB is most certainly a luxury if for no other reason that the fact that you can get the same information with a dial up connection. Here's an analogy and you tell me if it fits: When I go to work I drive my car, but I could just as well take the bus. Car = luxury, bus = utility. No it does not, a better analogy might be public education, before it became a "right", only the very rich could afford for their children to go to school. Most working class families & poor families need their children to work to survive. I know all about the child labor laws, I am not getting into that...
Education for my child (then) == Luxury
Education for my child (Now) == Right
Times change, and now broadband is not only a necessity, it is a right that everyone is entitled access to, it should be considered a utility that we can CHOOSE not to have... |
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