Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to G_Poobah
Re: 100 MB broadband for all
Actually, forcing private investors to build things because the mob requires it sounds more like a facist state then a democracy.. 
What you describe is the almost exactly the argument of communism, just so you know.
Capitalism is good because it provides the incentive to improve. Otherwise no one would, and if things are not improving, they're going the other way. The government is there to make sure system abuse is not occuring.
Now if companies want to receive public help (tax breaks, subsidies, etc.) to build their business, then they're beholden to public desire (other than market forces) as the public is, essentially, a stakeholder at that point. |
