30th October 2023, 10:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 30th October 2023, 10:18 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
My thoughts on those? Well, obviously I'm not from there so consider me a carpet bagger for what I'm about to say, but...
I fully support right to repair laws, and prefer more generalized ones to this specific one, but it's a good start. Considering I repair a lot of electronics these days, mostly as a hobby, you can imagine how important a right for people to repair said hardware is to me.
Banning foreign companies from spending money on campaign ads? Absolutely. Yes, "dark money" as you put it is a problem, but that doesn't mean we just give up. All we can do is plug up every hole we possibly can WHEN we can.
"Nationalization of industry" is the kind of thing that can be easily abused by fascist actors. I understand your concern. For what it's worth, this isn't nationalized, it's only state-wide. This prevents fascists at the national stage from taking advantage of it. My preferred solution? The employees that work for those power companies should own the power companies, or in other words make them co-ops. Then it's not owned at any level by the state while still not allowing oligarchs total control. Second to that is to only buy ONE of those power companies, leaving the other as competition. That's much like USPS competing with UPS and FedEx. Still, on balance this would, at least right now, be a better solution than doing nothing. I understand your concerns though.
I fully support right to repair laws, and prefer more generalized ones to this specific one, but it's a good start. Considering I repair a lot of electronics these days, mostly as a hobby, you can imagine how important a right for people to repair said hardware is to me.
Banning foreign companies from spending money on campaign ads? Absolutely. Yes, "dark money" as you put it is a problem, but that doesn't mean we just give up. All we can do is plug up every hole we possibly can WHEN we can.
"Nationalization of industry" is the kind of thing that can be easily abused by fascist actors. I understand your concern. For what it's worth, this isn't nationalized, it's only state-wide. This prevents fascists at the national stage from taking advantage of it. My preferred solution? The employees that work for those power companies should own the power companies, or in other words make them co-ops. Then it's not owned at any level by the state while still not allowing oligarchs total control. Second to that is to only buy ONE of those power companies, leaving the other as competition. That's much like USPS competing with UPS and FedEx. Still, on balance this would, at least right now, be a better solution than doing nothing. I understand your concerns though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)