Good point, yes. However, workers at these companies need better working conditions too, which may eat up some of these efficiency gains. (Until we manage to automate it all, that is)
I was going to say Amazon first! There are so many online stores, and stores that sell online that have to compete with Amazon. Or they can sell on Amazon directly, but Amazon takes a cut. If it was nationalized, selling on Amazon could just become the standard way for stores to sell online. That could be a good thing, as fees could go away or go to the government to run the program better. And there could be some nice service benefits of standardizing the way stuff is sold online.
Literally, just nationalize all providers of basic goods. Water, power, telecoms, grocery stores, housing, and hospitals. We can keep some private brands but we control the way they interact with consumers.
Corporations make themselves easier to be taken over by the workers. That’s why Amazon is creating their own “small businesses.” If we took back these corporations, immediately we could create a way better society. How do we go about doing this?
To nationalize a company? Typically pass legislation to buy up a company with pretence like 'important for the national security' or whatever, and then gov fixes price at which stock will be bought, and they buy it.
Can a city have the means to do this or would it have to be national?
I don't think a city can do this with Walmart given its size, but many cities have municipal ownership of utilities.
Yeah that makes sense. So something like an ISP would be feasible though. Maybe not Comcast, but one of the local one’s.
Nationalizing wikifeet is the obvious first step to building socialism.
