We can’t even get fiber to everyone in the US. What makes anyone think we can rewire an entire country and who’s going to pay for it? You and I with higher rates. How long would it take 30 years 40 years?
We could get fiber to everyone in the US, if we wanted to. We did rural electrification and telephone decades ago.
The problem is that the marginal utility gets smaller and smaller as the rollout continues. Most places in the US have some form of communication wire available, so you're not going from "nothing to fiber" but from "something slow to fiber" which is significantly different.
> We did rural electrification and telephone decades ago.
We used to do things like that, sure. Unfortunately, Government "Works" projects aren't like they were in the 30s-50s. Outside of rebuilding a few crappy bridges, almost nothing useful is being created.
At this point, don’t think we can trust the government with more money regardless of what they promise to do with it.
The vast majority of new Federal Gov jobs are build-nothing, do-nothing, buerocratic paper pushing roles that create nothing of lasting or even temporary value. The net effect of the massive Federal budget increases over the past ~4 years has been a sharp decrease in our overall workforce efficiency which has been the main driver of inflation.
The problem is that the marginal utility gets smaller and smaller as the rollout continues. Most places in the US have some form of communication wire available, so you're not going from "nothing to fiber" but from "something slow to fiber" which is significantly different.