One thing me and socialists have in common, I presume, is that government bailouts for corporations seems like a really terrible idea.
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Seems like a resolution could be making a distinction between the company and the infrastructure. Is there a way to make it so that the company (currently) running the port can fail, but the port itself cannot?
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'Course, in practice, I suspect what happens is that there aren't available replacement companies - or none who are likely to succeed; aka, it'd be a worse trade. Akin to an old business adage - "You didn't lose a million dollars; I just spent a million dollars on your training"
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If it turned out that bailouts were the thing that helped reverse a severe economic downturn, I think I'd take the bad incentives it puts on institutions
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Bailouts should probably be restricted to individuals (like families that temporarily cannot pay rent) and essential businesses that are expensive to rebuild from the ground up (eg airlines)?
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