• Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just nationalize them. If the government has to bail them out then then the government just bought them. If a company is too big to fail then it’s too big to be privately owned.

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      That’s what they did in my country when a bunch of the big banks almost keeled over in 2008/2009. They were temporarily (partly) owned by the state and eventually bought back their rights to operate as a separate business when things were going better again.

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        1 year ago

        That’s actually what the US government did with at least one of our failed companies as well, General Motors.

        Should’ve done it to all the banks and house loan companies too imo.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t want them to be nationalized though, I want them to be able to operate without needing government intervention, basically the exact opposite