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Re:Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers by pergadad on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:32AM (#22602899)
It's not the that ruined them, but we see another classic transfer from the state (=people) to the wealthy.

The correct thing would be to nationalise them if they go bankrupt, not to bail out the investors that earned money with the explicit expectation of risk.

And I say that having lost 10k in stock value in the past month. Still my fault and my risk and I don't deserve to be bailed out for it.

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Re:Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers by himinlomax on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:36AM (#22602919)
It's a form of insurance payment, wherein the insurer of last resort (the state) covers what private insurers don't because they can't.

No insurance policy covers war. This is pretty much like a war. It's uninsurable because it affects everyone.

Bailouts in 2020 are not gifts to the reckless rich like in 2008, they're like the Marshall plan.

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Re:Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers by mav3rick on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:26AM (#22603793)
Every time things are nationalized, people eventually clamor for privatization. Govts can rarely run corporations.
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