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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 18 Apr 2026
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is it because Switzerland is like 2% the size of America with like 4000% the GDP because of all the banks with illegal funds there?
Or because the US, the richest country ever to exist, is squandering its wealth on weapons and kleptocracy instead of improving its citizens' lives even a tiny amount?
top 10 richest countries on the world adjusted per capita.
notice something missing from that list?
oh wait...look who is on the list?
In Ireland I have 5Gb fibre to the home in the small rural town I live in.
And its only about €40 a month.
Is per capita appropriate in this context?
very much so. poor people don't buy things that aren't necessary like internet access.
edit: just to clarify, poor people don't have the expendable income to pay for both home Internet AND a mobile phone.
Por qué no los dos?
Its probably because they spend billoons on killing young girls and destroying civilian infrastructure instead of investing in their own.