> The Free Market Lie

Why is it a lie if Switzerland actually uses a free market and gets bonuses from it? Yeah, the idea with 1 common infrastructure is a positive aspect. It's interesting how they solve an issue with maintenance. But still, low prices and good quality of service are benefits of the free market.

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mdavid626 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The article didn’t say free market is bad in general, it said it doesn’t work for internet infrastructure.

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ragazzina 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> low prices and good quality of service are benefits of the free market.

All I see on the Internet is Americans complaining about high prices and enshittification of every product. Is your market not free enough?

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catlikesshrimp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Free market doesn't sort itself out. It has to be streamed through proper regulation.

	▲	sschueller 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't know why you are getting down voted. I wrote the article and that is the point of the article. A free market requires proper and smart regulation to work for all the people to get the best product.
	▲	Cantinflas 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That is not what the article is saying, at all.
	▲	diordiderot 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hence why the EU is competing so well against the US

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mewse-hn 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The article makes it very clear that the fiber to the house is a natural monopoly and should be public infrastructure, just like communism. Once the fiber reaches a central office, access can be sold and metered off to a free market, just like capitalism.

What most of us in the "free world" are suffering with is blood sucking parasites that own the pipe into the house and charge prices aligned with that fact. It's anti-capitalism in the guise of capitalism.

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slopinthebag 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Why would fiber to the house be a natural monopoly?

	▲	andriamanitra 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Because the fixed cost of deploying infrastructure (digging the fiber to the house) is extremely expensive compared to the marginal cost (of serving data over an already installed fiber). 20 different companies all digging their own fibers to the same house would be tremendously wasteful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
	▲	inemesitaffia 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Overbuilding makes no financial sense for companies