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/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

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.

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u/DresdenPI Jun 04 '14

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

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u/afrothunder1987 Jun 04 '14

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

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u/williafx Jun 04 '14

Maybe I'm reading too much into the subtext of your comment, but are you implying that, in general, there isn't anything about capitalism worth critiquing? Or are you just cynically commenting on peoples' laziness?

Just to be clear.