While I’m a huge fan of municipal water (I live in the city that invented it), lots of cities have horribly mismanaged their water supply, often from privatization, but not exclusively. See Jackson Mississippi.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120166328/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis
One of my college text books on Electromagnetism with the heavy calculus and derivations of Maxwell’s Equations to either Leonhard Euler or Isaac Newton, one of the extremely few people in the 17th century that would be able to understand the math and use the math to actually generate electricity.
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Stratford-upon-Avon ~100k (had to look up the population)
Or if England no longer counts for European, Corniglia, Italy (part of Cinque de Terra)
The US could keep up, but then that means that telecoms would make less money, so obviously that is a non-starter.
1Gbps symmetric. Actual speeds ~945Mbps Down and 913Mbps Up. $115/Mo Not the cheapest, but absolutely the fastest and most reliable so I’ll take it.
Call it Capitalism. It’s a systemic issue, not a lack of individual morals.
The problem with corporation isn’t the “greed,” becuase that aspect is unsolvable. It’s that their current structure exists to exploit everything possible to benefit a very small number of people and they all act in cohort without coordination. A virtuous corporation cannot exist.
Nethack.