• DdCno1@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      I have to wonder if people are serious with these absurd suggestions or what on Earth you are trying to achieve by writing this. This is about as realistic at demanding that America should build a second moon entirely out of cheese.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, it’s so much better to just write checks to failing companies. Obama bailed out GM without any preconditions.

        What if instead the government took the equivalent amount of ownership and put them on the path to building EVs? GM could’ve been Tesla without the Musk issue. And the public shares could’ve either been kept by the government, sold on the market later on or turned over to the workers so they could have someone on the board.

        None of this is an outlandish phantasy, other countries did similar.

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        What kind of cheese? Are private citizens allowed to go there and fill our pockets? Or is it government cheese and we wouldn’t want to