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isnt it efficient though for these capabilities to exist? why not nationalize them instead and make them accountable to the public
by tehjoker 2y ago
isnt it efficient though for these capabilities to exist? why not nationalize them instead and make them accountable to the public
- jlkuester7 2y agoBuilding and maintaining a functional marketplace (e.g. through common-sense anti-trust enforcement) is about more than just optimizing for a specific outcome...
- tehjoker 2y agoi just don't get why it has to be a market, we need fairly priced and implemented capabilities not wasteful redundant implementations
- idle_zealot 2y agoIMO it makes sense to nationalize things that lend themselves to natural monopolies, or sectors where innovation has mostly dried up on account of maturity, where continued progress is largely driven by tax-funded research grants already. I'm not convinced that "computing" is such an industry, innovation seems dead there because of monopoly. In that case, they should be broken up to drive competition-fueled innovation, with careful supervision to monitor for and punish anti-consumer behavior, abuse of negative externalities, etc. If it turns out that even then, 10-20 years from now the market is still making mostly glass/metal rectangles with the same feature set of today, then we can consider consolidating that productive capacity for the sake of efficiency.
- tehjoker 2y agoi think this pov buys too tightly into the idea that national projects arent innovative they are often more innovative than the private sector but it requires buy in and focus from their managers and funding from politicians
- briandear 2y agoThe Soviet Union had everything nationalized and it always accountable only to the Politburo. This idea that governments are “accountable” is cute. Government shouldn’t be running businesses.