The real looming threat to net neutrality

[Lissa]

To be blunt, trying to get more infrastructure for the internet has been tried and failed because of corporate greed. The government has given money to Verizon, AT&T, Cox, Comcast, and TWC to improve their infrastructure to increase speeds for their consumers and every one of them didn't spend said money on infrastructure, they just banked it. The internet backbone companies (those listed above) have forgotten the old adage, "you have to spend money to make money," and are so afraid to spend the money because their shareholders don't want to realize the money down the road, but want it now. So, there's your big reason for why the internet in the US basically sucks, the greed involved in the corporations isn't allowing for increases in the infrastructure to improve the internet.

That's not greed, that's short-sighted idiocy.

If they were greedy, they'd actually be doing all that stuff with infrastructure becuase it would get them more money.

No, what you're saying is the proper way to do business. The problem is, the big companies don't spend the money because their investors want quick returns, not long term returns. If the investors can't get quick returns, they take their money elsewhere. So, instead of investing the money to make more in the long run, the corporations slit their own throats in the long run for a short term gain so their investors are happy.