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It's capitalism. In this day and age bandwidth needs to be a utility, but as long as it is treated as a consumer good we are gonna get gouged. Next year spectrum is allowed to set data caps so any of you living without a care are gonna get a slap in the face for no reason.
It's not at all capitalism. ISPs are a regulated monopoly. If it were capitalism there'd be a choice.
Try starting your own ISP, the government in your towb wont let you. At most this is crony capitalism.
The natural result of unregulated capitalism is something that mimics a monopoly. Monopolies are illegal in my town; I can't open an ISP because of capitalism.
It's not at all natural, and would not have happened if government didn't step it to create a "regulated monopoly".
Fast food, gas stations, supermarkets, etc are all unregulated^1^ and there's countless offerings there. That's capitalism. This is crony capitalism. These companies work with the government to lock out competition.
1 - Yes, these industries have regulation, but there's no regulation whatsoever on opening an identical business next to an existing one. We see it all the time, a lowes next to homedepot, burger king next to mcdonalds, etc.