Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 13, 2014
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December 14, 2014
Transcript:
Voice on Phone: Bombast cable. How can I help you? Rat: Yeah, I tried calling you Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and you were closed each time. I thought your tech support was supposed to be open 24 hours a day. Voice on Phone: It is. And tat day is Thursday. Bwaahahahaaa. Rat: Is it me, or is the cable company getting more evil?
I do not blame the cable companies for their typically-shoddy service. The fault lies with the government overlords, in this case local, who grant service monopolies. Where there is competition, there is better quality and pricing, and where competition is politically constrained both suffer. Monopolies can subsist more than generation only with the care and tending by governments.