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You were so eager to write your rejoinders that you literally could not finish reading the final two sentences of my post? I think I fairly clearly anticipated

You were so eager to write your rejoinders that you literally could not finish reading the final two sentences of my post? I think I fairly clearly anticipated and addressed most of your points in my post. If you want to debate the wisdom of the U.S. Defense Production Act (apologies, I do not know what country you live in, based on what you said about nationalization of your industries - but if you’re unfamiliar with that law, feel free to look up it, or I’m happy to give you a capsule description if you like - I assume you have something analogous where you live, or maybe even a stronger version of it based on what you said in your post) or “too big to fail” and how I think that implies the necessity of temporary nationalization under exigent circumstances, then those are topics we could probably have an interesting discussion about. I bet we’d have some interesting disagreements! But I do think it was fairly clear that I wasn’t calling for perpetual public ownership of formerly private enterprise.

jhgb 4y ago
...how do the final two sentences of your post change anything? And no, that had nothing to do with the Defense Production Act. US Defense Production Act has nothing to do with nationalization. And our situation had nothing to do with it; it was simply a consequence of Moscow-backed Communist Party taking charge of the country and ending democracy as we knew it.
- nocoiner 4y ago
  I guess I’ve forgotten how to argue online, because obviously I’m not making my meaning clear. Agree to disagree and/or just to drop it? Sorry about what happened in your country. I think democracy is pretty great and regret that the threats to it are unceasing.
  - jhgb 4y ago
    Nationalization of large industrial corporations (like SpaceX is) on the basis of being considered vital for industrial interests of the state was the hallmark of all nascent socialist countries in the middle of the 20th century, so saying that nationalizing a large manufacturing corporation considered vital for the state is "not socialism" made absolutely no sense to me.

jhgb 4y ago

...how do the final two sentences of your post change anything? And no, that had nothing to do with the Defense Production Act. US Defense Production Act has nothing to do with nationalization. And our situation had nothing to do with it; it was simply a consequence of Moscow-backed Communist Party taking charge of the country and ending democracy as we knew it.

nocoiner 4y ago
I guess I’ve forgotten how to argue online, because obviously I’m not making my meaning clear. Agree to disagree and/or just to drop it? Sorry about what happened in your country. I think democracy is pretty great and regret that the threats to it are unceasing.
- jhgb 4y ago
  Nationalization of large industrial corporations (like SpaceX is) on the basis of being considered vital for industrial interests of the state was the hallmark of all nascent socialist countries in the middle of the 20th century, so saying that nationalizing a large manufacturing corporation considered vital for the state is "not socialism" made absolutely no sense to me.