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		catmanjan on May 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's Subsea Fiber Optics Tragedy of the commons, its the same reason there are big car companies but not big road companies.

noahtallen on May 18, 2022 | [–]

But there are big telecom companies and big chip companies, etc.

gimme_treefiddy on May 18, 2022 | [–]

How much of it is government lockout/red tape?

astrange on May 19, 2022 | [–]

Road companies seem like a natural monopoly so that doesn’t really apply.

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