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Should telecommunications be nationalized?
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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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Nationalize (or at least crown corp) everything.
Energy
Telecom/Internet
Food
Water
Natural resources
Insurance
Transportation
Housing (edited to include)
The idea that it's better to have single/few entities profiting instead of every Canadian benefitting is ridiculous.
Nobody is saying you can't be profitable and wealthy if you run a successful business.
But that's not what Canada is about, what we have in Canada is collusion and price fixing by like 8 businesses that own nearly everything in Canada completely unchecked.
What do you mean by nationalizing food? Between agriculture, making of food products, grocery stores, restaurants, etc...what would be nationalized?
All other items on this list I can understand, but I'm confused as to what nationalizing "food" would entail.
I think a good approach would be to create a nationalized not-for-profit option that the other chains would have to compete with. Maybe it wouldn’t have all the fancy stuff, but your bread, eggs, meat and produce would be cheap.
This would bring down prices all around and if you want to pay more for better stuff, you can do that at the private stores, and that’s where the capitalists can invest.
what is fancy stuff
Basically, store brand vs name brand. Maybe fancy is a strong word 🤷🏻♂️
Vertically integrated graft for one.