I read an article today that was talking about the fact that Canadian internet rates are going to be increasing over the next year.
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Frankly, it proves my point about everything that is wrong with Capitalism. About how those with resources that are being needed for many points of modern life are being horded by those who have absolute power and people who cannot afford, yet are needing it, have to basically sell their bodies to pay for it. What it is, is greed at it's worst and more ways to try and control the internet as a whole. By charging as much as they can they are going to drive customers away and end up loosing money in the long run. It shows a not surprising lack of intelligence among Corporate CEOs who apparently need more money for their solid gold whores and diamond encrusted mansions.
It is going to hurt people more than it would do any amount of good, and they can't see it so they will continue to exploit the working class, most of whom can't even make ends meet. Internet usage will be the first service people get rid of and all that money will vanish. Another reason that a revolution needs to happen and capitalism needs to be abandoned. Then maybe people can start actually caring about each other and about the world around them then just about money and personal greed.
One of the issues with Rogers and Bell and Shaw and Telus is that they use their size to prevent any small companies from starting up and those that do are muscled out by outrageous fees and charges which they have no choice but to pass on to the customer. It is a cycle, but a cycle that can be broken.
People need to stand up to these big bullies we have named "corporations" and only then will they realize that they can't walk over everyone and get away with it and the best ones to start with are internet providers because even though they only make up a small part of captalist corruption, their fall will serve as a warning to the larger corporations as to what will happen if you fall out of public favour.
I am from Australia.. our internets pricing is aids
ReplyDeleteThe main Problem with Corporations is that at the end of the day they have got so much power that one can simply not avoid using what they run..
ReplyDeleteBasically here in Australia 90% of all supermarkets are now either Coles or Woolworths so basically you need to go stupidly far out of your way in a majority of cases to find an alternative supermarket and even then the prices tend to be higher then the others.
Hardware is now the same, ever since these big Bunnings have opened there is very few small decent actually helpful hardware stores left.
The bigger petrol stations and the discount fuel stations run by those mentioned companies earlier have forced smaller independent petrol stations to close so we get but hurt even more in fuel costs it was $1.44 the other day! and I paid $1.24 2 DAYS earlier!
don't get me started about the real estate market!