The phone rings, and a recorded computer voice, after some delay, chants that their company is going bankrupt, but you should call their number to reclaim money you paid them. For Apple and Windows support, if I heard them properly.
Uh huh.
I better liked the Indians telling me I have terrible viruses. At least you could ask them if their mothers were ashamed of them. What fun is this?
The libertarians will tell you, no doubt correctly, that deregulation caused the cost of phone service to fall. What they didn’t properly realize is that a social cost rise comes with the drop in economic price. In other words, there’s more fraud because it’s cheap to do on a mass scale.
Maybe regulation wasn’t such a bad idea. I wonder if any economists have seriously sat down and calculated that out.
