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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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Re: Shocking... said by pnh102:If government here is pouring tons of resources into UTOPIA, which is government owned, how is it any different? In Communist USSR, the people didn't have a say or choice. Here, it's a democracy, and the public do get to vote on and approve the bonds and get to vote on and remove or leave in place the administrators. The people in the USSR had no such choice.
So, it maybe Government run, but it's democratically elected.
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by KrK:In Communist USSR, the people didn't have a say or choice. I am not comparing the differences in political freedom between the USSR and the USA. That aside, it is still 100% true that the old USSR would pour significant resources into keeping afloat inefficient and poorly managed state-owned industries. UTOPIA runs on exactly the same model.
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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| I disagree. Utopia is actually an ideal system, and holds great promise in not only saving the communities money long term, but providing future services at affordable rates by 3rd parties. If it is ever allowed to reach fruition it will allow true competition to bridge the last mile.
If it achieves nothing else, at least it forced the incumbents to build out when they had been dragging their feet. Part of the reason Utopia came to exist is because the incumbents there weren't in any hurry to bring broadband to the area.
They sure got in a great big hurry though once they started to do it for themselves.
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