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Should just nationalize it then. Otherwise propping up a company like that is anti-freemarket.
by Grimm1 6y ago
Should just nationalize it then. Otherwise propping up a company like that is anti-freemarket.
- rapsey 6y agoFreemarkets exist in fairytales.
- r00fus 6y agoThat doesn't seem to answer why we don't just nationalize it.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoBecause that's a commie move. It looks much better when you just keep investing in it. Plus shareholders get to make money off the taxpayers in the process.
- r00fus 6y agoPartial nationalization exists - Airbus is a good example. When your biggest customer is the government, it's a more stable approach than the half-assed privatized approach which really means more corruption.
- Alupis 6y agoWhat makes you so sure the government would do a better job at running Boeing? Are there any examples where a nationalized US organization is doing better than it's private industry counterparts? 737-MAX issues aside, Boeing is doing very well in just about every other aspect of their business, which is quite vast in scope. Everything from rocket ships to commercial airliners that aren't 737-MAX variants...
- Grimm1 6y agoYawn. Sure, like any ideal. I feel like you thought this would be revelatory. There exists a spectrum, I'd like to see us lean freer. Or at least not do weird back handed crony capitalism and just come out and nationalize.
- amheit 6y agoYawn. Sure, like any ideal. I feel like you thought this would be revelatory.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. There's nothing new to say about any of them and they inevitably degrade as they go—perhaps because the mind looks to conflict to amuse itself in the absence of any new information. Yes, the GP comment went halfway there but that's not a good reason to go the whole hog. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20ideolog%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=mind%20amuse%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- fhood 6y agoIt kinda already is right? Many of their defense contracts end up being practically blank checks.