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Re:What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor fami... by maximente on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:41PM (#21707423)
definitely. i'm personally so inspired by Comcast's awesome breakthroughs and super duper customer service inspired by all of this wonderful free market competition and efficient allocation of resources that i figure we'd be fine letting them handle social security payments, Medicare/Medicaid, defense spending, and all of that stuff. imagine the overhead we'd save by just having Comcast running the government!
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Re:What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor fami... by IXxXI on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:12PM (#21714622)
Would you prefer to have a state run pension plan like social security which pays out NEGATIVE returns. Or a privatized pension plan like a 401k or roth IRA paying POSITIVE returns?

Donald Trump tried to block AT&T from buying Time Warner to prevent market centralization which enables negative trends you object to. Why does the private sector bear 100% of the blame for negative trends, while faults of state regulation and our judicial system go ignored?

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