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The quote "markets can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent" comes to mind. Governments can stay irrational longer than you can stay vigilant.
by mvkel 3y ago
The quote "markets can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent" comes to mind.
Governments can stay irrational longer than you can stay vigilant.
It's frustrating that a decision can be made at great effort in support of net neutrality, only for a new bill to easily be introduced that undermines it yet again.
I guess that's a feature of democracy, not a bug. But I can imagine these battles gets harder and harder to win as time progresses.
- pictureofabear 3y agoIf Congress stepped in to mandate it, the flip-flopping wouldn't happen. You said it. This is a feature of the US government. It allows prototyping of policies before codifying them.
- Spivak 3y agoIs that actually true or would the flipping just happen every time the majority party changes?
- kelnos 3y agoDespite the required process for changing regulations in a log of executive branch agencies, I feel like laws Congress passes are a bit more durable. Even with a different majority, there's still horse-trading that needs to go on to get things done, and it's not always easy to push through things that are unpopular with the minority party. With executive branch agencies, whoever is in the White House pretty much has complete control, modulo rules that slow things down, anyway.
- komali2 3y agoIMO this is why communities should do everything they can to build their own infrastructure independent of these massive institutions that can't possibly represent their needs - some being comcast, others being the USA federal government. I find the concept of "the People's internet" fascinating https://urbanomnibus.net/2019/10/building-the-peoples-internet/ https://urbanomnibus.net/2019/10/building-the-peoples-intern... not to mention distributed networks like this are more rugged in the face of disaster.