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A blank cheque on corpo infrastructure just means that billionaires win and everyone else loses. At that point, just paint "Peasant Slave" on your forehead if y
by lenkite 3mo ago
A blank cheque on corpo infrastructure just means that billionaires win and everyone else loses. At that point, just paint "Peasant Slave" on your forehead if you don't have a multi-million lobbying group at the state and federal level.
"All your base are belong to us" => Billionaires of USA
When that happens rename the nation to Corporate States of America as well.
- DecoySalamander 3mo agoThe only losers are foreign adversaries who would prefer it if your country didn't develop high-tech infrastructure and businesses.
- lenkite 3mo agoALL High-tech Infra that leverages "eminent domain" SHOULD be held in the name of the nation state for public good not by the billionaire or his corpo. All these private data centers that leverage eminent domain to grab land should be property of the state and only temporarily leased to the corpo.
- inigyou 3mo agoGood point. Let's seize your house and make it a semiconductor fab.
- DecoySalamander 3mo agoLosing my home would suck, but the prospect of having a semiconductor fab in my country, in my city even, is so exciting that I would be 100% on board with it.
- jaredklewis 3mo agoBut what if I want to live in a country with a growing economy and improving infrastructure? Forbidding all development does hurt corporations and the wealthy, but just in the sense that it hurts everyone, including them. If we do want to soak the rich, can we do it in a progressive, targeted way (such as taxes) and not in a NIMBY way where we just say no one can build or improve anything?
- lenkite 3mo agoPrivate Corpo Infra != Public Use Infra. They cannot be treated the same way.
- jryle70 3mo agoIf they pay enough, why not? What is public use infrastructure in your opinion? Any difference than building more houses (like a dense apartment complex) and extend the grid there? That's still private corp infrastructure.
- bigfishrunning 3mo agoThere's a difference between "The state will seize your property" and "You may sell your property to the corporation at a rate you choose, and if you don't want to then they'll have to find some other land to use". In either case, development does happen, but the primary beneficiaries of the development (the owners of the data center) would have to pay the people who's land they're using (or taking!) instead of lobbying the government to just take it. I think that unwitting land owners should not be subsidizing the AI grifters...