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Actually, Norway and Sweden has a lower population density than the US has; we've got even more land mass per person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coun
by tjogin 17y ago
Actually, Norway and Sweden has a lower population density than the US has; we've got even more land mass per person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependenc...
I think it has more to do with that we don't leave infrastructure development squarely in the hands of the market.
- nollidge 17y ago> Actually, Norway and Sweden has a lower population density I realize that. The multipliers I gave necessarily imply exactly that: 15x pop. and 10x area => U.S. has 1.5x the population density.
- swolchok 17y agoI would imagine that non-uniformity of population (i.e., cities are high-density, backwater rural states are not) is exacerbated by the greater land area of the U.S.
- tjogin 17y agoSweden and Norway has very non-uniformly populated areas as well. Don't blame your land mass, blame your telcos. They are screwing you over.
- protomyth 17y agowell for the most part, the US has no market for utilities - it is all monopolies
- jerf 17y agoGovernment-issued monopolies. This is terrible stick to try to bludgeon markets with; there's hardly a market to be found.