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by CursedSilicon 516 days ago
Except that falls apart with services like this. "the market" can't create competition. You aren't going to get competing sewer lines, electrical wires etc running down every single street in an area

Companies will (and have done for decades now) carve up neighborhoods and slowly raise prices as far as they can get away with until they get smacked by regulation (if at all)

Comcast alone is living proof of this