• davel@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    It is capitalist, but it’s also socialist, which won’t be in the article, because a teardown can’t reveal those cost savings:

    • Not having to pay for workers’ health insurance, because the state provides healthcare
    • Not having to pay workers for hugely overpriced housing because of neoliberal asset price inflation
    • Not having to pay people extra so they can pay their student loans, because education is free/cheap
    • Not having to pay into pension funds or 401(k) matching.

    Etcetera. I think there are also various infrastructure costs that are cheaper thanks to being state run, rather than privatized and for-profit.