Socializing them would be a boon sure, but I can’t name a single major monopoly that is at any sort of “peak” that couldn’t be re-implemented better if we started from scratch.
Our country has been stagnating in many areas for decades now and the competition that occurred in the past did not push us to realize “general maximum efficiency” - it pushed us to realize a corporate hellscape, with billionaires drinking our human rights like they would a fine wine.
You don’t start it from scratch, you take away the profit motive by folding it into the political machine as a utility. People still work there, it’s still run in a similar fashion, but you take away the stocks and speculation and decision making and regulate it back to the people either via wages or 100% profit tax rate.
We need high speed rail for freight and transit. We need actual chip/etc. manufacturing in the US, especially for individuals and (non-monopoly scale) commercial applications. We need facilities to process various materials e.g. rare earths and we need to focus on extracting these resources ourselves without slavery or child slavery, or raping the earth. We need to manufacture our own consumer goods sustainably, instead of exploiting people in other countries. We need to invest into battery technology, so individuals can enjoy safe and cheap energy storage - as well as strengthening and building up our grid. We need to invest into making safer, more performant EVs and we definitely need to invest heavily in public transit. We need to improve our agricultural system and look at our water (mis)use in a general sense, immediately.
I don’t see how we wouldn’t have to start from scratch. Our major companies aren’t focusing especially hard on solving any of the issues humanity faces - unless one believes AI will solve everything for us magically.
Socializing them would be a boon sure, but I can’t name a single major monopoly that is at any sort of “peak” that couldn’t be re-implemented better if we started from scratch.
Our country has been stagnating in many areas for decades now and the competition that occurred in the past did not push us to realize “general maximum efficiency” - it pushed us to realize a corporate hellscape, with billionaires drinking our human rights like they would a fine wine.
You don’t start it from scratch, you take away the profit motive by folding it into the political machine as a utility. People still work there, it’s still run in a similar fashion, but you take away the stocks and speculation and decision making and regulate it back to the people either via wages or 100% profit tax rate.
We need high speed rail for freight and transit. We need actual chip/etc. manufacturing in the US, especially for individuals and (non-monopoly scale) commercial applications. We need facilities to process various materials e.g. rare earths and we need to focus on extracting these resources ourselves without slavery or child slavery, or raping the earth. We need to manufacture our own consumer goods sustainably, instead of exploiting people in other countries. We need to invest into battery technology, so individuals can enjoy safe and cheap energy storage - as well as strengthening and building up our grid. We need to invest into making safer, more performant EVs and we definitely need to invest heavily in public transit. We need to improve our agricultural system and look at our water (mis)use in a general sense, immediately.
I don’t see how we wouldn’t have to start from scratch. Our major companies aren’t focusing especially hard on solving any of the issues humanity faces - unless one believes AI will solve everything for us magically.