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> why not just start your own and fix it?

Because the State punishes you if you start emitting? It's called spectrum allocation.

Just because you can technically start a company doesn't mean you have anything resembling a free market, and in fact the examples you gave (wireless and healthcare) are two of the most regulated industries.

That doesn't mean the free market wouldn't be even worse than what we have now. It's just that you can't use that argument against it.

> The point of a business is to make a profit. This is many times at odds with what people actually need to e.g. Stay alive. I'm not sure why many people keep attempting to suggest businesses as a solution to the modern basic needs of humans. They're fundamentally misaligned.

And the point of the State is to further the ambitions of politicians and their pay masters (like those business owners who lobby them).

You can never get real alignment, so that's an irrelevant argument. Even parents are often not aligned with the welfare of their children.



Yes I'm sure no FCC would surely mean that wireless spectrum would remain usable.

Apparently the laws of physics are an invention of the state.


Like I said, maybe the result would be even worse. But that doesn't mean one can blame the current mobile internet situation on the free market, since it definitively isn't one.




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