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It's not that cut and dried. The kind of people who like fiber are upper-middle-class folks and technologists with disposable incomes, both of which are great f
by jxf 11y ago
It's not that cut and dried. The kind of people who like fiber are upper-middle-class folks and technologists with disposable incomes, both of which are great for the tax rolls. Their presence is worth far, far more than $10k/household over the duration of their stay in the city.
- egwynn 11y ago> The kind of people who like fiber Poor people don’t like fast internet?
- wmf 11y agojxf was probably assuming that fiber is faster and more expensive than other forms of Internet access. Poor people rationally would not pay extra for faster Internet, because there are diminishing returns to higher bandwidth. But as someone else said, if you have nothing today then installing fiber is probably no more expensive than installing cable or DSL.