• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    when a critical service is not economical for more than one business to do (natural monopoly), that’s when govt should be stepping in.

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      Which govt? I’m not comfortable with the idea of the current US govt having control over this sort of service.

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        are you comfortable with a single corporation having control over this sort of service? the current government is obviously not ideal but that shouldn’t stop us from regulating monopolies.

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          are you comfortable with a single corporation having control over this sort of service?

          Honestly? A tiny bit more than a single country. I have at least some miniscule control over the corporation through voting and local regulations that international corporations must follow, whereas I have absolutely no formal influence on US govt.