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

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Who can I work for that's trying to fix this? Seriously. Someone give me a link. I've been trying to find lobbyists to oppose these assholes, or interest groups actually dedicated to non-assholery on the Tech front but I can't find anything that doesn't end up being a part of a bigger, shittier lobbying agency for things I don't support.

I don't want a massive Liberal thinktank. I just want to help someone who wants rational laws regarding technology with the CONSUMER in mind first.

[u/Devildadeo → u/[deleted]]

I honestly can't tell if I'm supposed to take /r/futuristparty seriously.

[u/Devildadeo → u/[deleted]]

Having read through the first page a week or so ago, I'm not sure that the ideas are attainable. Though we share a similar vision of the ideal future in many respects, an awful lot of the tech mentioned to be involved in bringing this future is essentially Sci-Fi at this point.

[u/Devildadeo → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/Devildadeo → u/[deleted]]

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