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minus-squareekZepp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoStick to your old hardware and wait for the shitstorm to pass. The big tech deserve to fail.
minus-squareSturgist@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months ago The big tech doesn’t deserve to fail. a bail out, but will definitely be getting one.
minus-squareKn1ghtDigital@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months 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-squareSturgist@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months 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-up1·4 months agoThat sounds a lot like socialism and we don’t do that in this here land of the free 🦅
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months ago“Pay no attention to the [US government buying 10% of Intel] behind the curtain.”
minus-squarezikzak025@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months 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-squarekiterios@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months 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-up1·4 months agoSee…that’s the kind of logic that gets people places! … unfortunately in the US the place it might get you is the gulag…
Stick to your old hardware and wait for the shitstorm to pass. The big tech deserve to fail.
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.
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 🦅
“Pay no attention to the [US government buying 10% of Intel] behind the curtain.”
And yet the “free” market can’t be trusted to correct itself and fill the gaps if we allow a giant megacorp to fall.
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…