The User Pay..

(some initial notes and opinions from this evenings lecture in 'Globalisation')

.. problem is the short therm thinking. Because of the need for profits, noone can afford to wait for decades to get the profits. Noone but the government! Therefore 'User First' is better than 'User Pay' in the case of Telecommunication. 'Privatization' madness has swept the world - linked to 'Globalisation' (or in the word of any Neo IT Marxist with some selfrespect: Cultural Imperialism.)

The Four Paradoxes
1. The Paradox of Equity - Access (90,% don't have Internetaccess)
2. The Paradox of Plenty - 57 channels and it's all crap
3. The Paradox of Users - Knowledge don't equal wisdom
4. The Paradox of Diversity - the BIG 7 dominating