“To big to fail” just means “should be held in the public trust”

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    12 hours ago

    Too big to fail mans the people should own it. Appropriate the companies. 50 mil a company should be fine, he can keep the boring company

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    He is. You don’t lose that much money. He could lose 99% of his wealth and still be a billionaire, and one of the richest people in the world. He’s unstoppable without heavy-handed legislation. He is the government, him and his couple of pals who are running the country from behind the curtains.

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    23 hours ago

    Musk is a constituent part of the US military-intelligence-propaganda-industrial complex, as many US oligarchs are. Just thinking of tech oligarchs alone, off the top of my head, other such members are Andreessen, Bezos, Brin, Ellison, Schmidt, Thiel, and Zuckerberg.

    The oligarchs and the government aren’t separate things, they’re an integrated system.