No one person should have this much power over nations. Petty #dictators and #industrialists are cut from the same autocratic cloth. And if there ever were an argument for #nationalization, working with a declared enemy would be it. #Musk #Starlink https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/world/europe/elon-musk-starlink-ukraine.html

A major reason conservatives have always fought so hard for small government (i.e. weak and ineffectual) is to minimize the risk that core infrastructure is ever #nationalized, as it all should be, and that any attempts at such, like the #PostalService and #Amtrak, be so intentionally underfunded they can point to such examples as failures of #nationalization.

#TaxTheRich and #TaxCorporations and fund nationalization of #Rail, #Power, #Internet, #Water, #Housing, #Healthcare, etc., etc., etc.

#Russia wants to become a national EA & they have plan, yes have much plan.

"There's also an "ambitious scenario," requiring a $20 billion injection, which would entail an "industry breakthrough". Kommersant, perhaps wryly, notes that "the essence of [the industry breakthrough] was not disclosed" in the materials it saw."

1 Inwest 27 billion dollars
2. Industry breakthrough
3. Profit

#Gaming #Nationalization

Signing up for the RSPlaySecureLauncher beta right now...

https://www.pcgamer.com/russian-officials-are-considering-a-russian-electronic-arts-to-save-the-countrys-crumbling-games-industry/