34 points by measurablefunc 1 hour ago | 22 comments
- [delayed]
- Corporate taxes don't work and taxing the rich is super hard. Could this be a way for the state to suplement tax revenue?
- Owning the means of production is so capitalist now...
- Related today:
OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’
- Isn't that just socialism without the social benefits?
- Been like this since the GFC: the rich gave a government funded undo button they can press whoever they need to.
- Pretty much.
For all the current US administration has complained about the opposition being “socialist,” they’ve certainly gone all-in on the state partially owning private companies.
Almost like cries of “socialism” have become a dog whistle instead of what the term actually means.
- Norway is far ahead in this, they collect lots of tax from poor and avg. people yet they have the biggest wealth fund in the world. literally only benefits certain groups
- That certain groups being everybody, since they use the interest from the fund to put into the general government budget.
- Have we come full circle now with China inspired by American Capitalism to create their own model of it, that now inspires the Americans to imitate the Chinese?
- Yes, we've been copying the Chinese in a few cases in the past 6 years. I think they're the early warning signs of cultural dominance. Sort of like how a tin-pot African dictator in the 1980s would have an over-the-top western-style military uniform.
- Capitalism with American characteristics:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_charact...
- There's a reason they call him JDPON DON!
- Next step would be to do what europe does and put the unions on the boards and move towards social.
That or just go full fascism. Who knows!@
- Fascism? Skip it and go full socialism.
- Now the government has an extra incentive to get rid of unions entirely so that the company (and the government shareholder) makes more money. So yes, option B.
- this is why democrats are so stupid to use the word socialist even though it's accurate
sovereign funds, federal ownership making companies "too big to fail" is 100% socialism
but republicans are devious enough to know not to call it that
so do we get to idiotically slur the current administration and call them communists?
- > Article research and generated imagery enabled by AI tools including Claude by Anthropic.
*sigh*
- The modern equivalent of an ad hominem attack. Do better.
- There's literally no hominem being attacked.
If you want human attention, expend human labour.
- What a reductive take - attack the argument or move on.
- Tbf, they are saying the argument isn't worth engaging to begin with (not that I agree with)
- Hey, we're gonna buy 10% of ....in a week.
Thanks dad.