Privatization - NO! Nationalization - YES! Then What?
Privatization takes what is public and guided by what's in the public interest, and makes it private. This brings in the profit motive and puts profit above all else, especially over public interest. After this migration is completed, the public interest takes a big loss as a few o…
Privatization - NO! Nationalization - YES! Then What?
Privatization takes what is public and guided by what's in the public interest, and makes it private. This brings in the profit motive and puts profit above all else, especially over public interest. After this migration is completed, the public interest takes a big loss as a few oligarchs maximize their wealth while looting our common wealth.
Nationalization is the inverse: stopping the looting, putting public interest before profit. It not only needs to be done with Dirty Energy but with Big Pharma and other abusive monopolies that are letting citizens die prematurely for profit.
But nationalization is just the first step in keeping the oligarchs from ignoring our public interest as they maximize economic inequality. We must not return the monopoly to the oligarchs to figure new ways to abuse our public interest. The monopolies not only need to be divested but ownership must be given to the workers so they can continue to put public interest before profit.
Privatization - NO! Nationalization - YES! Then What?
Privatization takes what is public and guided by what's in the public interest, and makes it private. This brings in the profit motive and puts profit above all else, especially over public interest. After this migration is completed, the public interest takes a big loss as a few oligarchs maximize their wealth while looting our common wealth.
Nationalization is the inverse: stopping the looting, putting public interest before profit. It not only needs to be done with Dirty Energy but with Big Pharma and other abusive monopolies that are letting citizens die prematurely for profit.
But nationalization is just the first step in keeping the oligarchs from ignoring our public interest as they maximize economic inequality. We must not return the monopoly to the oligarchs to figure new ways to abuse our public interest. The monopolies not only need to be divested but ownership must be given to the workers so they can continue to put public interest before profit.