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It seems incorrect to call this competition. I'm glad you got your broadband but what happened sounds much more like American politics than ordinary market pro
by joe_the_user 7mo ago
It seems incorrect to call this competition.
I'm glad you got your broadband but what happened sounds much more like American politics than ordinary market processes. And in this political environment, corporations can engage in a variety of other tactics than placating a squeaky wheel - they can outlaw competition, buy off officials, pay for shrill media hit pieces and so-forth.
- HauntingPin 7mo agoIt's clearly competition. The incumbent company saw a potential competitor and acted upon it. That's literally what happens when there's competition. It doesn't matter that the competitor didn't actually exist if the incumbent behaved as if it did exist. I'm never sure what the point of comments like this is. "It seems incorrect". But it isn't. You just don't want to admit that competition is good and necessary.
- postsantum 7mo agoNo, it's called market manipulation. OP's action caused spending at the expense of the companies. Not going to "won't someone think of the shareholders", but calling competition is misleading
- joe_the_user 7mo agoOK, I should have said "economic competition" though I imagined that it was implied. If you just say "competition", you can point at the efforts of ten people to gain a seat on the politbureau as a clear case of this.
- hnthrow0287345 7mo agoIf they ever find out they've been duped, they'll certainly go out of their way to make something worse down the line at the expense of the people. These are the kind of short-sighted tactics that competition and capitalism breeds that belongs in luxury markets, not utilities or essentials.