Comments on: Pay more, speed up https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=528 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:24:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: spike https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=528&cpage=1#comment-2109 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:24:54 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=528#comment-2109 There has long been a business model built on this principle. In Burlington, VT, the state paid to lay fiberoptic cable throughout, and then reaped the profits of its use similar to renting real-estate. I’m not sure I would call it Corporate Greed, but I certainly wouldn’t use capital letters.

If you get familiar with the NGO world, they operate no differently than Corporations – their ‘profit motives’ are of different nature, of course, but they work tirelessly to promote themselves and their cause, often with no regard for the back-firing and misdirection of policy changes that might result.

]]> By: Tyrone V. https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=528&cpage=1#comment-2105 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:05:29 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=528#comment-2105 It is all about Corporate Greed. They want more and more money while these same companies are destroying the future of workers by eliminating Pensions and further degrading benefits. It seems that companies are afraid to compete on services and just want to monopolize everything by charging their competition out of existence leaving those who are unable to pay out of the information superhighway. The world is becoming sicker in some aspects by the day which is increasingly frightening to me and this is just one example of it

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