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Prices are high because demand is there. The US is cursed with being too rich. The exact same thing happens in healthcare, education, etc.

Sure, the rent seeking is enormous in all of these sectors, but to eliminate that faces the usual obstacles.



Prices of services produced in the USA is high because the USA exports dollars https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-class-politics-of-t...


But mobile networking should not be a service in the labor-cost-predominating sense. That said, I'm very glad to see others citing Phenomenal World :),


I acknowledge the high prices. I'm just wondering what kinds of opportunities this prevents.




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