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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

If a company is too big to fail, and the loss of it would have serious ramifications for the country as a whole, then when faced with continued corporate malfeasance, they should NATIONALIZE the company. Oh, is this too important to be left to morons who issue stock buybacks amid layoffs while cutting corners in manufacturing/compliance? Then NATIONALIZE IT.

Do it with boeing, do it with railroads, and do it with healthcare. I'm sick of these private corporations fucking over all of us repeatedly and NOTHING being done. They're just left to do it again! No jail time, no consequences that they couldn't easily afford, NOTHING.

Boeing CEO's

-Thornton Wilson (68-86)

-Frank Shrontz (86-96)

-Philip Condit (96-03)

-Harry Stonecipher (03-05)

-James McNerney (05-15)

-Dennis Muilenburg (15-19)

-Dave Calhoun (20-Present)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nationalize it, then hand it over to the internal unions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm a great believer that the workers should own companies, but the same logic applies. If it is too big to fail, then no private ownership should be permitted, either capital or worker.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are ranges of nationalized control over a company. USPS, for example, would do a lot better if Congress wasn't forcing certain choices, such as how they fund pension plans.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Republicans - actively attacking Americans by destroying public services.

Also Republicans - See!? We told you government services suck.

Fucking trash anti-american rapists

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

Any company that's too big to fail is too big to exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Nationalize Boeing 🙏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I’m sick of these private corporations fucking over all of us repeatedly and NOTHING being done.

You misunderstand the role distribution. The American people are not the ones who are being protected from the big companies in the country.

They are the prey being offered to the big companies.

The companies have won. They are paying the legislation to provide a buffet of easily exploitable, squeezable unprotected victims. Depending on whether you need medical procedures, an education, or are just unlucky enough to be chosen to become labour in the private prison complex due to being the wrong colour, the companies are just waiting for you to fall into their respective web, at which point they own you, suck you dry and leave you to bankruptcy or worse.