• Uriel-238@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If we thought about this enough, we’d be two steps from nationalizing the railways.

    But then think about how we treated our essential workers in 2020.

    • Endlessvoid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If we thought about this enough, we’d be two steps from nationalizing the (insert industry here)

      This works for so many things, railroads, electric utilities, healthcare system, communication infrastructure, etc. Any industry which operates with a defacto monopoly and which maintains our nations critical infrastructure has no business being run by capitalists on wallstreet. They don’t provide any value to these industries, they extract it.