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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
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    Congress has always had this power. I’m personally for nationalizing telecomm companies.

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      Health; education; energy production; food production & distribution; water; housing; mass transit and telecommunications should all be classified as essential services and nationalised. Everything else can be whatever.

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      The problem would be that nationalising them in this day and age would mean prices would get even worse for everyone, as the government having a monopoly on these things would mean they can charge whatever they want, and with the amount of debt and deficit they have, they’d charge a lot.

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        As we all know, private corporations don’t charge whatever they want, and don’t jack up the prices because of a “Fuck you, why not?” fee and bill.

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          Did you stop reading after the first part of my sentence?

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            No.

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              Your comment says yes.

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