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Agreed. The government preventing the sale of guns to children is not socialism. Nationalising the railways is.
by beardyw 2y ago
Agreed. The government preventing the sale of guns to children is not socialism. Nationalising the railways is.
- yawpitch 2y agoHonestly nationalising the railways isn’t necessarily socialism either, if and when the for-profit companies abandon even attempting to reliably run the damned infrastructure and move to generations of collusion, monopolies, and rent-seeking instead. There’s a point at which rail lines are no different than highways systems or the sea and are better managed as part of the commons even in a capitalist / libertarian system precisely because there’s no way to distinguish one carrier from another in terms of competition.