My internet in the Silicon Valley today is worse than I had in Europe 10 years ago. It's pretty disillusioning.
My symmetric DSL then was faster than downstream-DOCSIS is now. I also have to keep a backup line, because Comcast here (SOMA) goes out about every other month, and I work from home. So I pay another $35 for MonkeyBrains, which is much slower, but more than nothing when Comcast is dead.
To paraphrase Gandhi, I think American capitalism would be a very good idea.