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I supposed there is no morality in the world that say you shouldn't be able to charge 150 bucks or whatever price for 5 megabits, but the quality of life would
by kiba 13y ago
I supposed there is no morality in the world that say you shouldn't be able to charge 150 bucks or whatever price for 5 megabits, but the quality of life would improve immensely with high bandwidth.
That is, the difference between slowly browsing the textual internet forever on dailup and watching khanacademy youtube videos with a crappy DSL connection. Imagine that everyone are on gigabit connections? What would that entails in term of increased well-being and economic propserity to humanity?
Cable companies don't seem to care about anybody but themsleves. Not the future of humanity, not the employees, not the concept of enlightened self-interest, not even the rich. They only care about MONEY.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI'm not usually one to stand up for big businesses (especially telecoms companies) but you're being ridiculous. >> "watching khanacademy youtube videos" You don't need crazy fast internet to watch YouTube videos. I've been watching theme fine since I was on 1 mobs broadband. And do you really think that if we suddenly have super fast connections people will spend time watching educational content instead of porn and cat videos? >> "Cable companies don't seem to care about anybody but themselves" They care about their shareholders and maximising profits. They are running a telecoms business not trying to improve humanity!
- kiba 13y agoYou don't need crazy fast internet to watch YouTube videos. I've been watching theme fine since I was on 1 mobs broadband. And do you really think that if we suddenly have super fast connections people will spend time watching educational content instead of porn and cat videos? My point of comparsion was between dailup and DSL, and how DSL enables khanacademy videos. With faster internet, it will alow things beyond khanacademy videos. And do you really think that if we suddenly have super fast connections people will spend time watching educational content instead of porn and cat videos? A faster internet allow more things that can be done to improve humanity as well allow humanity to watch better porn and cat videos. They care about their shareholders and maximising profits. They are running a telecoms business not trying to improve humanity! If you the rest of the comment. I was noting how short-sighted the cable corporations are. If anything, they are like paperclip AI that wishes only to make paperclips. Cable corporations are like that, except it's all about printing money.