Should telecommunications be nationalized?
Should telecommunications be nationalized?
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Yes is the only answer... Unless you hate Canada.
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Yes, because the requirement for extensive infrastructure running across large stretches of land makes market entry nearly impossible for new competitors (while also being disruptive for customers if it does become possible).
If by the nature of the product or service there is no ease of switching providers and if the thing is a necessity to get by in the modern world, it shouldn't be (solely) private.
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Yes, cell towers should all be nationalized, then anyone can compete on service and price, not on coverage. Instantly everyone gets better coverage in more places, with more bandwidth because they can get service from any tower. Instantly, prices hit rock bottom because there's no barrier to entry.
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Fucking right it should be, the triopoly is not working with the interest of the average Canadian. My small town the best wired internet I can get is 10/5 Mbps. Just moved from a small city 30 min away and they have a standard 1.5 Gbps and we're looking to upgrade to 3 Gbps right before I moved
Am currently on a wireless 20/10 Mbps with a 400 GB cap. Yet the fibre connections get UNLIMITED bandwidth.
Oh and that 10/5 connection also costs more than fibre...
Fuck the tropoly
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You can switch to other telecom towers to avoid the big three.
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Yes, in Saskatchewan we have the cheapest telecoms because of a crown corporation that is very profitable.
Our provincial government is trying to shut it down and sell it because they are bunch or corrupt assholes and hate their constituents and want not but wealth for themselves and friends.
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I don't trustpoliticianns to be farsighted than enough to run such well. But if we keep the politicians out and allow the workers to seize the telecommunications systems from the bosses free of consequence, that might actually work.
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Is this a joke question?
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Nationalize (or at least crown corp) everything.
Energy
Telecom/Internet
Food
Water
Natural resources
Insurance
Transportation
Housing (edited to include)
The idea that it's better to have single/few entities profiting instead of every Canadian benefitting is ridiculous.
Nobody is saying you can't be profitable and wealthy if you run a successful business.
But that's not what Canada is about, what we have in Canada is collusion and price fixing by like 8 businesses that own nearly everything in Canada completely unchecked.
Products and services needed to survive and function in modern society should all be provided by nonprofits.
Your list covers everything I'd take away from corporate control.
That sure looks like a list of things that were once crown corps and then sold for pennies by Tories to the detriment of the Canadian population
What do you mean by nationalizing food? Between agriculture, making of food products, grocery stores, restaurants, etc...what would be nationalized?
All other items on this list I can understand, but I'm confused as to what nationalizing "food" would entail.
I think a good approach would be to create a nationalized not-for-profit option that the other chains would have to compete with. Maybe it wouldn’t have all the fancy stuff, but your bread, eggs, meat and produce would be cheap.
This would bring down prices all around and if you want to pay more for better stuff, you can do that at the private stores, and that’s where the capitalists can invest.