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Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by bb611 on Friday December 16, 2016 @08:03AM (#13192934)
But in the US the average consumer doesn't have a meaningful choice between road companies: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/09/most-of-the-us-has-n...
Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by simonh on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:07AM (#13193703)
This is the heart of it. Free market economics is a wonderful thing and as a civilization we have reaped enormous rewards from it, I'm a true believer, but if your market produces natural monopolies that are highly stable then that's not really a market anymore and it's certainly not free or fair.

Adam Smith, the father of free market economics, was very clear about this. Markets must be well regulated in order to remain free and fair.