Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoPlenty of capitalist companies are government owned. Canada has crown corporations, for example, that do generate profits. en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_government-owned_compa…
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you in favor of this?
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
In favour of what
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The government holding ownership stakes in companies. If so, have you been in favor for a long time or did it start this week? Because I’m focusing on the people that just recently adopted this position after years of opposition to anything that even smelled like government interfering with business.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I never took a stance on it.
These are fine, fairly high quality in terms of service. And I guess in general these two having revenue streams and self funding mean that I don’t pay taxes to run a national broadcaster and our postal service.
I would rather not have junk mail or advertisements in our public broadcasts. I would have to look at numbers to say whether the taxes are a worthwhile trade-off.
I do not want news or mail to only have corporate owned options, because then capitalist interests would have a much heavier influence on communications is Canada. I wish we had a national crown ISP, for the same reason.