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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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so you're saying it takes the same amount of time, money, and effort to paint a room that's 100sqm vs one that's 18,750sqm?
No, they are saying that you have 100 times more resources, so you could do it if you really wanted.
It doesn't work that way because of how completely spread apart the US is. It would take much more money per square mile and much, much, longer to do.
It is exactly how it works - that's purely american exceptionalism.. China, India, Japan (which is REALLY spread out, btw!) are also big and sparse, that doesn't stop them from doing such things
Japan is small, and LOL if you think most of China and india have great internet, and not just some of their more major cities.