RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 3 days agoThe Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn'tstefan.schueller.netexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1327arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1324arrow-down1external-linkThe Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn'tstefan.schueller.netRSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square84fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNikelui@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·3 days agoNo, they are saying that you have 100 times more resources, so you could do it if you really wanted.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days ago100 times more resources? wtf are you talking about? fiber isn’t manufactured in the US. manpower has an upper limit of what actually helps. ie: you can’t make a baby faster by getting more women pregnant. if you want to talk about money, Switzerland is literally founded on banking establishments. so what “resources” are you referring to?
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 days agoIt doesn’t work that way because of how completely spread apart the US is. It would take much more money per square mile and much, much, longer to do.
minus-squarefilthy_lint_ball@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoIt is exactly how it works - that’s purely american exceptionalism… China, India, Japan (which is REALLY spread out, btw!) are also big and sparse, that doesn’t stop them from doing such things
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 days agoJapan is small, and LOL if you think most of China and india have great internet, and not just some of their more major cities.
No, they are saying that you have 100 times more resources, so you could do it if you really wanted.
100 times more resources? wtf are you talking about? fiber isn’t manufactured in the US.
manpower has an upper limit of what actually helps. ie: you can’t make a baby faster by getting more women pregnant.
if you want to talk about money, Switzerland is literally founded on banking establishments.
so what “resources” are you referring to?
It doesn’t work that way because of how completely spread apart the US is. It would take much more money per square mile and much, much, longer to do.
It is exactly how it works - that’s purely american exceptionalism… China, India, Japan (which is REALLY spread out, btw!) are also big and sparse, that doesn’t stop them from doing such things
Japan is small, and LOL if you think most of China and india have great internet, and not just some of their more major cities.