If I had lot's of capital, I would definitely invest in companies that owns the infrastructure. Plastic & data connections will be the next gas & oil.
In US/Canada it would be a good idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibreJust to double check my figures. 90% of fiber in place now is "dark". And because of new protocols, more bandwidth can be stuck thru a present fiber.
The biggies that own the fiber are railroads,telecom and maybe electric company mainly because of the "right of way".
Every buttfuk town in USA/Canada used to have a railway, and the railway companies own the "right of way".
Moores law does apply to fibre.
So the "real cost" is dropping. But since right of way is a virtual monopoly, they can charge what ever they feel like it.
Lol i have never seen someone that can bend a thread from cost per byte to the #failAndFlaimingDeathOfUS so quickly NOP. You're funny guy
Politics determines business. And business can influence politics.
So opening a "nude dancing" bar in turkey is a bad business model, because of politics
Bottom line is that "capitalism" in USA/Canada is broken. Majority of military contracts are awarded without competing bids etc.
The analogy of comparing USA/Canada (politically canada is getting closer to USA) to failed empires like rome,spain,holland and britain is a poor one.
Mainly because the mentioned countries where small who depended on colonies.
A better analogy would be to compare USA/Canada to India,China and Russia.
In land mass all 4 countries are large, with large amounts of resources and population.
USA is the new guy on the block, but India,China and Russia have always been "super powers".
USA will continue to be a "super power" but will decline somewhat, it will become more like russia 200 years ago or china/india 40 years ago.
The crimean war (which probably should be called a world war) was fought between russia vs entire europe, and russia held it to a stalemate.
I just mention the crimean war to show that Russia despite being fucked up politically at the time, was a "super power".
40 years earlier when fighting against napoleon, the russian military engineers where the best.
In the case of the these types of "super powers" the purpose of "colonies" was not economic, but more "pride" and "expansion of ideas".
Then every so often the get all xenophobic withdraw into themselves, and turn into a feudal like system.
In the case of USA, they are starting to go xenophobic. Also you can see the start of a feudal system.
This current "recession" in USA, for majority of the population quality of life has lessened, but for about 5% it has increased.
From 1945 to ~1990 India and China where not a factor on the world economy. Mainly because they chose not to be.
People assume falsely under a "feudal" system, a country can not build great things.
In Russia there is the Kremlin, St Peterburg, for the longest time when it came to casting of metal for bells and canon, no one could beat russia.
In India you can find countless examples also. They talk about how USA invented steel frame construction in NYC, india was doing that for their temples 300 years earlier. When advisors to the PM of Canada state that certain individuals should be assasinated, when they constitute no physical threat ....
Feudalism is great for the top 5% of the population. But it kind of sucks for the serf working in the field.
California is nice. Maybe when USA turns into a feudalism in 20 years if I am still around I will move there and buy a beach house.
Would be kind of amusing to hire "white trash" on subsistence wages to clean my house etc.
