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There is a simple solution to this, but it is unlikely to ever happen. We
don't seem to have the appetite nowdays for actually fixing anything.
The solution is to replace all the existing phone line infrastructure with
Internet infrastructure, so that everybody has Internet (good, reliable,
Internet, not the sort of fly-by-night stuff we have now). Then everybody
has phone service and everything else that the Internet provides (which is
becoming increasing essential to modern life).
I have also thought that they should replace all the AM/FM (and, for that
matter any other) radio bands with Internet service. There's really
nothing that you can do via radio that isn't really just a subset of what
you can with IP service. As it happens, I do listen to FM radio in my car
a lot, but I always think: Wouldn't it be better if I could get IP service
instead?
Anyway, of course, none of this will happen until someone figures out a way
for the donor class to make a buck off of it.
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Treating the stock market indexes as general measures of the well-being of a
society is like treating your blood pressure as an indicator of health. The
higher, the better, right? In fact, a high stock market is good for the investor
class, but it means the rest of us are getting screwed better than ever.