alt Hacker NewsIt creates a lot of perverse incentives, and is probably a bad idea in the long run. If the govt makes more money when intel is successful, then the govt is incentivized to sabotage Intel's competitors (e.g. through tariffs, export controls, and many other powers). This distorts the free market that is (allegedly) at the center of America's success
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jazzyjackson • today at 6:30 PM
See also: confessions of an economic hitman, the mysterious affair of Olivetti
US government has always had a policy of sabotaging international competition
The answer is probably an automatic state in any company over a specific size given to the government. The only competition is then international.