Re:Elizabeth Warren unveils bold new plan to reshape America...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @04:19PM
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> This bill seems like it forces socialism/command economy on all companies valued greater than 1 billion dollars
In that it gives some voice to workers in direction of firms, it could kinda-sorta be seen as a kind of socialism, but since the firms actual decisions are made internally and not by an external central planner, it's not anything like a command economy.
> The worst thing about stuff like this is that is socialism is hard to dispell in sound bites.
I dunno, the American Right usually does a good enough job (even against things that aren't socialism) with just “socialism” repeated over and over as the soundbite, with no additional substance.
That might be changing over time in a demonstration of the “little boy who cried wolf” effect, though.
> Unfortunately millennials do not remember the Soviet Union
I'm not a millennial, and I quite clearly recall that the Soviet Union was not exactly known for large private joint stock companies with a minority voice for workers in choosing directors. So, I can see that not remembering the USSR is a problem here, though not in the way you seem to be concerned about.
In that it gives some voice to workers in direction of firms, it could kinda-sorta be seen as a kind of socialism, but since the firms actual decisions are made internally and not by an external central planner, it's not anything like a command economy.
> The worst thing about stuff like this is that is socialism is hard to dispell in sound bites.
I dunno, the American Right usually does a good enough job (even against things that aren't socialism) with just “socialism” repeated over and over as the soundbite, with no additional substance.
That might be changing over time in a demonstration of the “little boy who cried wolf” effect, though.
> Unfortunately millennials do not remember the Soviet Union
I'm not a millennial, and I quite clearly recall that the Soviet Union was not exactly known for large private joint stock companies with a minority voice for workers in choosing directors. So, I can see that not remembering the USSR is a problem here, though not in the way you seem to be concerned about.