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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by jonahbenton on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @09:53PM (#23913172)
The monopoly on first class mail point is well exercised; will also point out that turning the USPS into a public corporation with shareholders does not itself have any impact on governance. Facebook has shareholders, and Mark Zuckerberg does exactly as he pleases with zero accountability.
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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by pseudalopex on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:17AM (#23917917)
Facebook has an unusual share structure that gives Zuckerberg a majority of votes.
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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by jonahbenton on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @05:54PM (#23922010)
Yup. A "privatized" US Postal Service with shares sold on an exchange would offer buyers of those shares exactly as much control as Facebook shareholders have. Maybe even less!
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