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It's too reductive to blame this on one politician. We had a similar thing happen in Australia, and so did Germany, and countless other countries. Infrastructu
by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
It's too reductive to blame this on one politician. We had a similar thing happen in Australia, and so did Germany, and countless other countries.
Infrastructure tradeoffs are made all the time - it just so happens that that one backfired due to a very sudden technological revolution predicted by almost no one at the time.
- ChrisRR 6y agoThatcher was the prime minister, not "one politician"
- ChuckNorris89 6y ago>a very sudden technological revolution Except in Germany's case it wasn't sudden. Kohl's Government was instructed by experts that copper will die and fiber is the future yet his cabinet knowingly shelved that idea so that his copper buddies could make a profit.
- nickkell 6y agoWhether good or bad, it wasn't a trade-off - it was an ideological decision. There's always a struggle between those that treat infrastructure as a national interest and those that want to privatise it