Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Worst Company Ever

This article about Comcast's flaws is alternately ominous and amusing.
Tags: cyberspace theory, economics, politics
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  • 5 comments
alaneer

alaneer

April 23 2008, 06:58:39 UTC 13 years ago

I agree, comcast sucks. And I have it for cable and internet.
arielstarshadow

arielstarshadow

April 23 2008, 11:25:24 UTC 13 years ago

I was horrified when they took over our local cable company. Many more slow days, or dropped connections.

Don't even get me started on big businesses' attempts to "buy" the Internet: that's exactly what it is, too - buy it up and then sell it to the highest bidder so that only the rich companies can afford high speeds, and the rest of us will be plodding along, back to the days of dial-up.
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

April 23 2008, 17:47:17 UTC 13 years ago

One of the dangers of capitalism is that, in the absence of checks and balances, it can cause severe degradation of goods and services. When companies focus wholly on profit instead of meeting consumer needs, they behave as parasites instead of symbionts. The result is undesirable and unsustainable. People are finding this out the hard way.

On the other hoof, one good thing about capitalism is that it encourages competition. If a company reeeeaaaalllly sucks ... that leaves them open to competition from others who don't. Large groups of outraged customers can band together and start a competing company.
morningdove3202

morningdove3202

April 24 2008, 00:36:15 UTC 13 years ago

One more reason to quit cable and just do netflix!

I love the precious netflixs, and I hates commercials!

Dove

Funny quote

Anonymous

May 1 2008, 14:51:45 UTC 13 years ago


Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.


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