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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

In your guys opinion, is that good or bad? Privately funded would mean proprietary & profit driven implementation for such a crucial technology (if successful). I personally don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The CPC still maintains a lot of influence over companies even when they're getting their funding from private industry as part of their "politics in command" strategy for controlling market forces. We'll see how it plays out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yep, if they need to disappear a CEO, no matter how big, they can and have done so in the past.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Won't somebody think of the CEOs!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i don't know why you got a downvote, disappearinga CEO should be the most popular thing the ccp does

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Not to an Amerikan cosplay-capitalist lmfao. (I call them cosplay-capitalists because not a one actually owns capital; they just lap at the scraps that fall on the low-quarters of the c-suites they worship.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The billionaires deserve it tbh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Any path that takes us to unlimited clean energy is the right one IMO. We could always do a little espionage and make our own domestic fusion drive eventually.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t mind profit driven because I’m confident that free markets are good for everybody.