lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoThe Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn'tsschueller.github.ioexternal-linkmessage-square186linkfedilinkarrow-up1678arrow-down119
arrow-up1659arrow-down1external-linkThe Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn'tsschueller.github.iolemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square186linkfedilink
minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoOr because the US, the richest country ever to exist, is squandering its wealth on weapons and kleptocracy instead of improving its citizens’ lives even a tiny amount?
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agotop 10 richest countries on the world adjusted per capita. notice something missing from that list? oh wait…look who is on the list?
minus-squareColeslaw4145@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoIn Ireland I have 5Gb fibre to the home in the small rural town I live in. And its only about €40 a month.
minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoIs per capita appropriate in this context?
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-28 days agovery much so. poor people don’t buy things that aren’t necessary like internet access. edit: just to clarify, poor people don’t have the expendable income to pay for both home Internet AND a mobile phone.
minus-squarekalleboo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days agoThe poor parts of Eastern Europe like Romania are awash in cheap, fast internet though
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days agoyou mean the parts that are a part of the EU that directly benefit from support from some of the richest countries in the world?
minus-squarekalleboo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·6 days agoThe EU is still poorer than the US
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days ago help me out, the American education system sucks and I can’t tell which of these countries are in the EU.
Or because the US, the richest country ever to exist, is squandering its wealth on weapons and kleptocracy instead of improving its citizens’ lives even a tiny amount?
top 10 richest countries on the world adjusted per capita.
notice something missing from that list?
oh wait…look who is on the list?
In Ireland I have 5Gb fibre to the home in the small rural town I live in.
And its only about €40 a month.
Is per capita appropriate in this context?
very much so. poor people don’t buy things that aren’t necessary like internet access.
edit: just to clarify, poor people don’t have the expendable income to pay for both home Internet AND a mobile phone.
The poor parts of Eastern Europe like Romania are awash in cheap, fast internet though
you mean the parts that are a part of the EU that directly benefit from support from some of the richest countries in the world?
The EU is still poorer than the US
help me out, the American education system sucks and I can’t tell which of these countries are in the EU.
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Por qué no los dos?