And pull themselves up by their bootstraps as usual?
Imagine living in the 2020’s in the developed world and not realizing that internet access is a basic necessity.
Then imagine being the sort of person who would deny poor people basic necessities
cough healthcare cough
Might want to get that cough checked out. …unless you’re in America, in which case you probably couldn’t afford it.
Best I can do is an aspirin I found on the train and sleep it off.
Sleep? What do you think this is, a spa?
Get back to work, paid sick days are just a myth perpetuated by the evil socialist europeans. Don’t look it up.
If you don’t come into work today you are going to put undue burden on all of your coworkers. It’s certainly not my fault for staffing to the absolute bare minimum so that there is no room for people to be sick or take days off, it’s your fault for being a lazy worker
Oh you’re insisting you can’t come in because you are sick? I’m going to need a doctor’s note that will cost you a day’s wages.
They know full well that internet is a necessity to participate in society.
That is why they are blocking it with every fibre of their being.
To them, poor people are poor because god is angry at them. They deserve to be poor.
basic necessity
Did you misspell guaranteed revenue? They know exactly what they were doing.
Imagine living in the 2020’s in the developed world and not realizing that internet access is a basic necessity.
Then imagine being the sort of person who would deny poor people basic necessities
Standard Republican Worldview
My mom works with internet people. I remember when I was a kid she was making fun of them for saying internet should be a basic human right. Nowadays, it would be hard to find someone who doesn’t think that lol
Trump 2024, lol
(Edit: just to clarify–if you want all that bullshit, Trump is your man 🙌)
(Edit 2: /s would apparently have been the appropriate indicator of my lack of seriousness. TIL!)
if only there was a way to indicate sarcasm…
I can’t believe I’ve done this
Nationalize internet.
My coop power company installed fiber, so my ISP is a coop. IMO I’d rather this that purely nationalized.
Co-ops are cool, but markets in general have far too many disadvantages for me to advocate for market-based Socialism over a non-market solution.
Short of a complete revolution, market Socialisim is probably the most viable path out of capitalism. It doesn’t have to stay there, and shouldn’t, but it’ll be a whole lot less messy than a revolution.
Depends on the country, honestly. In America, I’m more inclined to believe Syndicalism would work, reform won’t meaningfully happen from within.
In general, I’m anti-tendency and believe that the material conditions of each space need to be analyzed independently.
Nice where do you live
Mississippi
the sad bit is, wireline internet providers could sell $30 per month high-speed internet and still make money at that lower rate and without subsidies.
Every penny that goes to social programs to help the poor is a penny that isn’t going to corporations and their billionaire donors. Of course they want to cancel it, along with social security, medicare and public libraries.
Always have money for war and bloodshed
And whenever they have control, more tax cuts for the rich.
Damn 30$ discount. How much do you pay in the states for broadband access. I pay about 40$ each month for a 500/500 connection.
In a city a connection like that is probably going to be in the area of $60 to $100. I pay $80 all in for a similar fiber connection.
Outside of a city you just aren’t going to get it.
There are a few places that have Community ISPs where it will be substantially less expensive, but those are the exceptions and many states have actually made it illegal to operate community ISPs.
That’s germany levels of shitty internet infrastructure. we pay 20€ for 100/60
Just got fiber in my area of the US, it’s $60 for 500/500, or $80 for 1000/1000
paying almost $90 now, here, for supposedly 300mbps (downstream) that barely ever gets past 60. there are people near me that pay about the same for 1mbps or less dsl (just outside of cable’s territory, so dsl is all they have)
That goes for about $70 here, in a competitive, urban market. $50 for 300.
Damn, this is in a small town in the most northern parts of Sweden and the apartment building is locked down to only one supplier aswell.
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It is USD, pay 408 SEK where 58 is a invoice fee. Yeah, cannabis is very illegal here in Sweden but kinda easy to get hold of thanks to all the gangs.
Wow. I’m in a competitive exurb market and I’m paying $60 for 1.5 Gbps. It’s $25 for 300. $40 for 600.
I’m in an urban area where my apartment building is wired for only one ISP. $92 a month, the speed test I just did was 400 down, 20 up.
I pay $100 a month in a rural area for 12down/500kup by bridging two DSL connections, the only thing I can get in the woods. I can’t watch Hulu and browse the Internet at the same time.
just so i get that right, you pay 100$/month for 12mbit/s down?
Correct. Insanity, right? Welcome to rural America.
Just take it out of the oil and gas subsidies.
It’s what Republican Jesus would do, fuck the poor. We could fund Israel’s war with all that wasteful spending!
brainrot-level take incoming: jesus was a jew, it’s obvious
referring to tax cuts for the rich
Both parties are the same!
Fucking poor people!! Have they tried NOT being poor!? Bunch of lazy entitled poors!! /s
Lmao, their problem with it, is that the vast majority of people using the ACP already had Internet before signing up…Which just proves how much of a necessity Internet is.
We’re is this technology related? It’s completely political - something I don’t want to see, but now also technology cannot be followed anymore, as most things here are political news with a tech keyword in the headline sadly :/
But isn’t broadband access one of the main requirements for using technology? I understand not wanting to interact with politics, but nothing in our life is truly separated from it.
Politics is everything
If your kid is the better player but the coach picks his kid to be on the team then that’s politics
If company puts a paid OS on their IBM machines because it’s made by the son of someone on their board instead of the superior free option then that’s politics
…broadband Internet has nothing to do with technology?
