• ekZepp@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Stick to your old hardware and wait for the shitstorm to pass. The big tech deserve to fail.

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      4 months ago

      The big tech doesn’t deserve to fail. a bail out, but will definitely be getting one.

      • Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip
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        4 months ago

        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.

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          4 months ago

          I mean… personally? I don’t feel like this is actually that much of a hot take. More of a verifiably good idea.

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              4 months ago

              “Pay no attention to the [US government buying 10% of Intel] behind the curtain.”

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              4 months ago

              And yet the “free” market can’t be trusted to correct itself and fill the gaps if we allow a giant megacorp to fall.

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            4 months ago

            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.

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              4 months ago

              See…that’s the kind of logic that gets people places!

              … unfortunately in the US the place it might get you is the gulag…