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Unless Americans want America to look like Argentina. Nationalization has a not a great story almost anywhere.

Regulatory measures are what can force bean counters to respond.

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> Unless Americans want America to look like Argentina. Nationalization has a not a great story almost anywhere.

The airline industry has already been nationalized once before. I don't think it was the end of USA.

"Just look at <X> country" is also a really poor, unintelligent argument to make.

Just look at Y continent then? South America is rich with all degrees of Argentina.

Plenty of great stories of nationalized industry all over.

Argentina's economic problems have to do with its level of historical development compared to it's current economic potential. The same problems seem to occur cyclically whether things are nationalized or privatized.

Argentina is an American country. Perhaps you want to say United States instead of America.

Eh. A large part of the world simply calls the USA “America” and then refers to other North and South American countries by name. It’s a known convention.

Is that how Argentines speak?

I do not have knowledge about whether they are in the set “large part of the world” or outside of it.

Nazi germany privatized vast swaths of their economy (steel, rail, etc.) [1]. So you want america to look like Nazi Germany? /s

This is not a serious analysis of history. Besides, a large number of countries (e.g., Sweden, Norway, France) have more public ownership of corporations than Argentina.

1. http://www.ub.edu/graap/nazi.pdf

Coincidentally, the state of France holds around a tenth of Airbus stock

Indeed, as I recall, government owning part of a company, not all, is a fairly common practice worldwide. It recognizes that the company is quasi-governmental, as Boeing is.

Is this "better?" I don't know, but for an extremely large, capital-intensive, national security-critical industry, it might be the least bad solution (and no, I'm not a socialist).

>Nazi germany privatized vast swaths of their economy (steel, rail, etc.) [1]. So you want america to look like Nazi Germany? /s

And how exactly that privatisation is at all related to fascism? The argument is totally irrelevant. Let's turn this on its head: Most of American corporations are privately/publicly (and not the government) so does America right now look like Nazi Germany?

... did you miss the /s for sarcasm on the post you replied to? That's exactly the comments point.

Oh okay so that's new to me. /s for sarcasm.

Yeah, I did miss it rather did't even know this convention. :)

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