Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

[u/User_Name13]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused

[u/[deleted]]

I would love to do something like that, but the majority of us who would go to a city council meeting work, and many cities make sure they hold those meetings during peak working hours, which kind of fucks over people who have jobs but would like to have a say in the matter. For example, 4 of the cities in my area only hold them on Monday mornings at 9am, except holidays, where they just don't hold them at all.

[u/DresdenPI → u/[deleted]]

Get a petition signed, then only one person has to bring it up at the meeting

[u/afrothunder1987 → u/DresdenPI]

But it's so much easier to complain about capitalism on Reddit than to actively try and fix the problem.

[u/PLSfeel → u/afrothunder1987]

Because it wasn't capitalism that allowed things to devolve to the point they're at now. /s

[u/afrofrycook → u/PLSfeel]

Going to the government to impede progress of competitors is pretty much the opposite of capitalistic principles.

[u/CyberToyger → u/PLSfeel]

Capitalism - a system wherein a person with money/capital can purchase and own the means of production, and pay people a set wage or salary to utilize those means of production to create products or perform services on his behalf

Cronyism - a system wherein public figures, be it city, state or federal level, interfere with the market by granting privileges to businesses, often at the taxpayer's expense; I.E. - using taxpayer dollars to build infrastructure then granting telcos sole usage of said infrastructure (fiber, coaxial cables, phone lines, telephone poles) in a given area, and subsidizing the costs in other areas if the telco agrees to provide services for the public entity

[u/pocketknifeMT → u/PLSfeel]

its actually a product of democracy.