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  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    It's not about hate. If the public sector could make things cheaper, therefore saving people's taxes, how is that a bad outcome for the country's citizens?
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    My argument is that it sucks by design. States decided to make it suck to justify all the money poured into the private sector. If you have the same resources and the same people, it really makes no difference if something is private or public...
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    You asked, I answered. The only thing that changed is that modern states sold their souls to capitalism, there's nothing intrinsically better or more innovative in the private sector, it just happens to be that way nowadays because states decided so.
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    You just seem to distrust the public sector, as there's plenty of corruption in the private sector. You're just assuming the worst possible outcome for the sake of it.
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    The entirety of human history before the 20th century?
  • maniak replied to the thread Elon Musk | Owner of X.
    How to I edit the trends section to show me global trends and not portugal trends?
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    If it would save them money, why not?
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    Change the law if that's the case. The money saved would more than make up for it.
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    What's stopping the public sector paying them more? Looking at the military budget, it would be peanuts.
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    That applies to so many things. Our taxes finance these innovations that are later exploited by private companies.
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    Right, because the same people responsible for today's innovation would suddenly stop innovating if their employer was the state instead of company x. Makes sense.
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    Of course innovation is happening in the private sector, there is no public sector. Having the defense of the state and the nation's citizens dependent on private industry is absolute bonkers and actually a threat to national security. It has...
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    I know, it's just crazy.
  • Have we reached the point where being against genocide is being woke?
  • maniak replied to the thread General CE Chat.
    It's insane how a country that revolves around military adventures doesn't have a nationalized military production. This is nothing but the traditional capitalist transfer of money from the people to big corporations. That being said, at least...