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[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but the big players have their hands tied up in Congress and the military so much that it's not gonna happen.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

Then they should be nationalized, because they've already got the benefits, but none of the downsides, while the public get none of the benefits, and all of the downsides... At this point "too big to fail" are essentially critical government infrastructure setup by wealthy criminals to steal directly from tax payers.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Nationalizing industries? In America? We don't do that here, friend. We give corporations massive bailouts and forgive all felonies.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ya know… I was going to say “You dropped this /s”

But then sadly, I realized you didn’t :-(

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

I mean the US came shocking close after the Penn Central collapse, even operating Conrail for several years as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Federal Government for several years

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I would bring back Conrail immediately.

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