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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
This metaphor isn't very apt.
The metaphor doesn't make much sense because the suggestion it was responding to didn't make much sense.

If there's a carrier making lots of money very very easily due to a lack of competition, and that carrier is going out of its way to stifle competition at every opportunity, and making it as difficult as possible for their customers to change to another carrier...

...under those circumstances how can customers even consider giving those same carriers compensation for lost profits? Why would we owe them a single penny?

If they can't make a good profit in a free market then they don't deserve any profit at all. We owe them absolutely nothing, they treat us like cattle. They're providing a commodity, so we're the ones who should be milking them, not the other way round.

The farmer's organic food metaphor doesn't apply because organic food isn't quite the same thing as non-organic food. They're two different products produced by two different methods so they have two different prices.

With carriers though they're all providing exactly the same product: calls, texts, data. There is absolutely nothing better about expensive data compared to cheap data, it's all just a single commodity. The ONLY reason calls cost more in America is because the carriers have stifled competition, and for that they deserve massive fines, not massive rewards.

Last edited by krisse; 2009-09-05 at 04:37.
 

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