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I agree but there's one practical problem with this: other markets (e.g. the EU) need to nationalize or reproduce it too or else the US is getting significant g

I agree but there's one practical problem with this: other markets (e.g. the EU) need to nationalize or reproduce it too or else the US is getting significant geopolitical leverage.

londons_explore 5y ago
If the US nationalized Amazon, I think you can be pretty sure that other countries would also nationalize their local Amazon divisions (ie. Amazon FR would become property of the french government)
- Nasrudith 5y ago
  Why would they repeat the US's mistakes immediately after watching it blow up on the US? People have agency and the response to a sudden theft by the government for being too successful would be to get the hell out of there as the US is no longer stable. The other subsidiaries wouldn't surrender ownership to a distant bandit government just like all of the other times it happened. Everybody but communists know that Nationalization is a goddamned terrible idea doomed to failure - you can see it by not being in their political platforms at all. Only those with dogmas to consider the action a goal in itself advocate for it.
  - spaceribs 5y ago
    The goal is to democratically own ostensibly public infrastructure, do you have a better way instead of whining about communists?