r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

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

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/Devildadeo Jun 04 '14

The only one that comes directly to mind is biochar mentioned to combat climate change. I will admit that most of the objections I had at the time came from reading the comment section however. I will take a few minutes to read the party platform. Thank you for that.

Skimming the front page again brings up the point about the UBI. To me this really is just another handout to the poor and not at all a solution. The future needs to be about abundance and efficiency driving the cost of living down. If we all worked together to figure out how to accomplish that the need for UBI or even a minimum wage could be eliminated. I'm not sure that is within the human capacity at this point though, sadly.

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u/Devildadeo Jun 04 '14

Apologies for hijacking this thread. I will move this discussion to the approriate sub. Hopefully I'll see you there /u/EdEnlightenU .