
Meanwhile, back in the real world...
There are fewer and fewer limited plans and the real inequalities, market harms and barriers to access come from monopoly ISPs (e.g. Comcast) and monopoly content providers (e.g. FB, Netflix).
Democratically run economies are going to surrender their advantages to the authoritarian, one-party states through political paralysis and stupid policy flip-flopping. Regulatory certainty even with stricter regulations is better for growth and investment than all the see-sawing between regulation and de-regulation. Same applies to the climate change and the environment. Democracies are trapped in the short-termism of the political cycle. Since I don't want to live in a one-party state, I'd like to see this problem fixed. Maybe it's not democracy, per se but the widely seen two-party system that creates these problems. Maybe it's like standards, there are too many, but not enough.