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> The Free Market Lie Why is it a lie if Switzerland actually uses a free market and gets bonuses from it? Yeah, the idea with 1 common infrastructure is a pos
by tom910 3mo ago
> The Free Market Lie
Why is it a lie if Switzerland actually uses a free market and gets bonuses from it? Yeah, the idea with 1 common infrastructure is a positive aspect. It's interesting how they solve an issue with maintenance. But still, low prices and good quality of service are benefits of the free market.
- catlikesshrimp 3mo agoFree market doesn't sort itself out. It has to be streamed through proper regulation.
- Cantinflas 3mo agoThat is not what the article is saying, at all.
- diordiderot 3mo agoHence why the EU is competing so well against the US
- sschueller 3mo agoI don't know why you are getting down voted. I wrote the article and that is the point of the article. A free market requires proper and smart regulation to work for all the people to get the best product.
- tom910 3mo agoDo we know places when it actually works well? I agree about a small regulation layer, but the issue is that regulation grows over time to the point when it limits free market power. The most problematic markets in the US is over regulated by my opinion
- mewse-hn 3mo agoThe article makes it very clear that the fiber to the house is a natural monopoly and should be public infrastructure, just like communism. Once the fiber reaches a central office, access can be sold and metered off to a free market, just like capitalism. What most of us in the "free world" are suffering with is blood sucking parasites that own the pipe into the house and charge prices aligned with that fact. It's anti-capitalism in the guise of capitalism.
- slopinthebag 3mo agoWhy would fiber to the house be a natural monopoly?
- andriamanitra 3mo agoBecause the fixed cost of deploying infrastructure (digging the fiber to the house) is extremely expensive compared to the marginal cost (of serving data over an already installed fiber). 20 different companies all digging their own fibers to the same house would be tremendously wasteful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
- slopinthebag 3mo agoBut you wouldn’t get 20 different fibres, just one sold to 19 different companies.
- inemesitaffia 3mo agoOverbuilding makes no financial sense for companies
- Hikikomori 3mo agoWhy would roads to your house be a natural monopoly?
- mdavid626 3mo agoThe article didn’t say free market is bad in general, it said it doesn’t work for internet infrastructure.
- ragazzina 3mo ago> low prices and good quality of service are benefits of the free market. All I see on the Internet is Americans complaining about high prices and enshittification of every product. Is your market not free enough?
- tom910 3mo agoI just checked Init7 price for 1gig internet in Zurich and the price is higher than I'm paing for 1gig in Seattle and payed in Bay Area. So, free market kinda works. But even in this case, the article doesn't provide motivations for companies spent a lot money for building common infrastructure in rural places which usually have an issue with bad internet options