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Why Broadband Prices Haven't Decreased
pdragon04 writes "After a new technology is introduced to the market, there is usually a predictable decrease in price as it becomes more common. Laptops experienced precipitous price drops during the past decade. Digital cameras, personal computers, and computer chips all followed similar steep declines in price. Has the price of broadband Internet followed the same model? Shane Greenstein decided to look into it. "
Boy that's a great idea! Let's have the government run and fully control our access to the Internet. We should also have them provide us all with gas, electricity, television, radio, transportation, food, shelter, medical care, retirement... hell, why stop there? What about candy, booze, pills... everything you want and need. We can finance this brilliant plan by contributing all our money to them, and then they can spend it where they see fit! We won't have to worry about anything anymore!!! Why hasn't somebody thought of this genius solution before? Oh wait, I think I remember something from a history book, where this really big country on the other side of the world did just that, but things didn't work out so well...