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minus-squareSturgist@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·14 hours ago The big tech doesn’t deserve to fail. a bail out, but will definitely be getting one.
minus-squareKn1ghtDigital@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·14 hours agoHot take: if your company needs a bailout it’s no longer a private company and belongs to people as a public service and is regulated as such.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agobailouts ought to come as leverage either as a loan (at fed rates) or a capital investment. I agree! and then the company can either buy the government out or repay the loan. it strikes me as fair.
minus-squareSturgist@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·14 hours agoI mean… personally? I don’t feel like this is actually that much of a hot take. More of a verifiably good idea.
minus-squareChronographs@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·13 hours agoThat sounds a lot like socialism and we don’t do that in this here land of the free 🦅
minus-squarezikzak025@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·13 hours agoAnd yet the “free” market can’t be trusted to correct itself and fill the gaps if we allow a giant megacorp to fall.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·9 hours ago“Pay no attention to the [US government buying 10% of Intel] behind the curtain.”
minus-squarekiterios@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoThe bailout is the government purchasing shares at about to go bankrupt prices. It’s a reasonable take that isn’t even really a change in the system.
minus-squareSturgist@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoSee…that’s the kind of logic that gets people places! … unfortunately in the US the place it might get you is the gulag…
minus-squarebig_slap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agohmm… never thought about it like this but I agree 👍
Hot take: if your company needs a bailout it’s no longer a private company and belongs to people as a public service and is regulated as such.
bailouts ought to come as leverage either as a loan (at fed rates) or a capital investment. I agree! and then the company can either buy the government out or repay the loan. it strikes me as fair.
I mean… personally? I don’t feel like this is actually that much of a hot take. More of a verifiably good idea.
That sounds a lot like socialism and we don’t do that in this here land of the free 🦅
And yet the “free” market can’t be trusted to correct itself and fill the gaps if we allow a giant megacorp to fall.
“Pay no attention to the [US government buying 10% of Intel] behind the curtain.”
The bailout is the government purchasing shares at about to go bankrupt prices. It’s a reasonable take that isn’t even really a change in the system.
See…that’s the kind of logic that gets people places!
… unfortunately in the US the place it might get you is the gulag…
hmm… never thought about it like this but I agree 👍