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Caps are inevitable. Human wants are infinite but human resources are finite. While some resources are more plentiful than others, and human wants may not hav
by codex 16y ago
Caps are inevitable. Human wants are infinite but human resources are finite. While some resources are more plentiful than others, and human wants may not have caught up with resources in the short term, those fundamentals will never change.
As one would expect, there are no resources in the world which don't have caps at the limit (or a per-unit charge, which is the same thing in aggregate): water, electricity, gas, oil, fish, wood, bulk voice communications etc. Greenhouse gas emissions and dumping are the notable exceptions, and soon to change once the situation gets so bad that politicians set up the appropriate economic systems to properly account for externalized costs.
- chc 16y agoWhat you say is true, but AFAIK bandwidth is cheap enough and generally so much more plentiful than demand that artificial caps should almost never be necessary. If a provider actually needs to institute caps, it's usually a sign that they're being lax in maintaining their network. Further evidence: These are the same guys who lobby against community fiber networks, despite the fact that these entrenched players should already have an enormous advantage if they haven't been sitting on their laurels for the past half a decade.