Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

• MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice false dichotomy, moron. Not supporting SpaceX or Amazon is not equivalent to not wanting to help poor people, you literal idiot. I want to help them in ways that actually work, not hand megacorporations more money.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A poor person doesn’t need an internet connection in the middle of the woods. Free wifi in cities would do INFINITELY more

    This is not a serious response.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You have no points to make. Pathetic. Literally too stupid to think for yourself.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The fact you cannot understand that literally anything would be better than giving billion dollar corporations more money is pathetic.

        Let’s actually work through this for one moment.

        I’m in favor of ending all current welfare programs and just handing poor people money, on a graduated level, until their net income hits a certain amount (let’s say 200% of current poverty line). Cuts the infrastructure, helps them more than this plan full of cutoffs.

        How exactly does this not benefit companies they will buy things from? How is this materially different from giving subsidies to a company?

        If you don’t like billionaires, tax them.

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