Comment on Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated

• Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That sounds a lot like socialism and we don’t do that in this here land of the free 🦅

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      • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • kiterios@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    hmm… never thought about it like this but I agree 👍

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