NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
Because television is little more than a basic utility now. There's no need for a cable company to be making profits. I get great electric service from a non-profit co-op whose only mandate is to break even. When they have money left over they send it back to us. There's no reason cable/satellite tv couldn't be like that.
I see...like cell phones? are they a basic utility too?
you do realize that when you up the "basics" or that is when you level someone UP absent merit as a motivator, from point say Z to V, it costs money and short circuits the system. Thats the social aspect...
as for the free market aspect- Your apparent answer that; why do the providers of a service need to generate above operating cost revenue appears to me to so so intellectually vacuous, I can scarcely believe you made it. Do you wan to re-phrase?
I can believe he posed such an intellectually vacuous question. It's completely consistent with his inane worldview and lack of useful knowledge.
Well if you're so smart, you tell us why I can get better service from a non-profit electric company and a non-profit bank,
and why a non-profit cable provider couldn't function just as well.
That will shut you up.