Bagginski
Well-Known Member
Just a rich kid who thinks he’s smart…and doesn’t realize that the money he had access to made up for his lack of snap in making things happen. Every time he tries to actually RUN something, he fails spectacularly: his empty ramblings on AI are jaw-dropping, and he’s acting out his meltdown live on Twitter daily, and Tesla is beginning to seem riddled with ‘E-Ron accommodations’ that promote cascading failures.
Almost single-handedly Husk makes a solid case for nationalization as an agreed-upon public policy: his whimsical control of Twitter and Starlink in specific as cases in point, but I’ll go into Starlink a little.
Starlink is turning out to be sort of good, sort of bad, and sort of necessary: globally-accessible internet is a practical necessity going forward, and Starlink has shown proof-of-concept and better (as the satisfaction of a series of technical challenges); its essentially mindless distribution of the satellites required, however, is turning them into navigational wild-cards, it’s expected they’ll be interfering with ongoing placement of future satellites.
By nationalizing Starlink, the numerous deficiencies that have come to light over the last …18 months could be not only corrected, but armored against attack, the Starlink ‘orbit zone’ could be straightened out without the usual nickel+diming, an essential piece of infrastructure brought under regulation & oversight, and a lack of plain-view extortion going forward could all be achieved.
Likewise, Twitter is arguably essential infrastructure at this point - and both economically and socially we’d be best served by Twitter being subject to regulation and oversight (in much the same way as we’d benefit from a definition of ‘news’ that news services could be held to).
We’ve considered the question of essential infrastructure ever since electrification & radio, and our one-time solutions, the electric utilities & the FCC, were marvels of publicly owned-and-controlled services and the idea got extended to cover gas & water, too. It was only during the Reagan era, when EVERYTHING became a profit center, that the utilities were allowed to convert themselves into for-profit corporations like any other, and go hunting.
How ‘s everybody’s utility rates? Free market make all that better?
The internet, and the now-essential services it makes possible, is too important to be left piecemeal to the marketplace, driving the consideration of ways to incorporate these important features without spend ping centuries with an untold number of monopolistic boots on our collective necks.
Husk et al is just an egregious example
