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binktoday at 6:48 PM4 repliesview on HN

Imagine a world where in order to do business in the US you must grant the government control of your company. This sounds worse than even the most alarmist China takes.


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phkahlertoday at 7:02 PM

Sounds exactly like China to me.

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ks2048today at 7:47 PM

You can change just change the last word and get Latin American foreign policy for the past 130 years,

"Imagine a world where in order to do business in the US you must grant the government control of your country".

bdangubictoday at 7:30 PM

This is exactly America’s path. All this time we were “fighting” regimes like Chinese and Russian and now it is like “can’t beat them, join them” banana republic

tehjokertoday at 8:04 PM

I don't even understand why it is thought that letting a small non-elected clique run economically important infrastructure and control the lives of thousands of employees isn't considered dystopian. Public ownership at least has democratic legitimacy.