A thing that bothers me about a lot of the "they're an evil company, no bailouts for them" discourse that's been on twitter recently is that bailouts/emergency support is supposed to be preventing a large disaster not using congress/public opinion to pick winners and losers.
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for an idea on what government help looks like without congress deciding who's worthy of help:https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1242290719466737666 …
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2 isses. 1) One may think that some industries are more essential. 2) Most cruise ships are registered outside the US. May not want a precedent that we'll bail out corps that are skirting US laws (although the laws which incentivize non-US registration are pretty bad.)
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I know when I want to do a crack down on tax and labor law evasion, the right time is in the middle of a unrelated largest national emergency in decades
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