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[–] [email protected] 121 points 2 months ago (4 children)

There’s gonna be so much to unfuck after this presidency ends in 100 years.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

let's start by nationalizing Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, start by nationalizing SpaceX. Then we can deliver packages REALLY FAST.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually want my package in one piece tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

eh.... best I can do is dejoy delivery sometime in the next decade

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather have it be cut up into a bunch of little companies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just burn it to the ground. It's just consumerism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

But how will people get their daily dose of treats then????

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it would allow for a more efficient and streamlined delivery service alongside better regulated sale of goods and proper quality checking and consumer protections that most people moan about the lack of, which would not be fixed just by monopoly busting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

nationalizing it would keep it a monopoly, while cutting it up would cause the bits of the company to have to compete to keep each of their delivery services efficient and streamlined

consumer protections can be implemented with regulations

edit: if you wanna silently downvote me, say why

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, I didn't downvote you. Others did, government corporations by themselves don't act like monopolies because they do not prioritise money but instead influence and power, you wouldn't need predatory tactics to keep people using your state owned solutions and a government wouldn't employ predatory tactics to beat down on competitors, if it truly was meant only for the government then it would have private investment into the field made illegal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It's absolutely gonna feel like a 100 years. FML....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

We'd be better off rebuilding it all from scratch with an economic system that actually works for the people this time.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Monopoly laws should prevent retarded shit like this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

how? for more than half of the US fedex, ups, and for ~ two places dhl exist. vertical integration isn't prevented by anti-trust or monopoly laws.

The USPS is important because of rural and remote places that would otherwise completely lack mail services for even just sending tax to the government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You just listed three companies. Mono-poly means one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bet you love two party politics, too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Boy are you a neutron star cause you dense as fuck?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Antitrust law is about more than just literal monopolies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's an oligopoly.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Those poor drivers are already overworked and underpaid. I can only imagine what hell they’d go through having to also deliver normal mail.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

this is just more indication of destroying the society. Where I want to live starts with a seat of government, followed by post, followed by libraries, followed by education.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Damn, sucks to be FedEx and UPS. Spending millions in lobbying for decades only to get the snub by Mango Mussolini.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

So the plan is to replace all the union jobs with contractors that don't get benefits, are filmed on the job at all times, and to have the hiring organization control all power of negotiation.

Fucking great. Let's do it. Make america poor again. Time to go back to the 1800s guys.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Fuck Jeff Bezos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

What a treasure trove of data they’ll collect on us all. I hate this timeline

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Stupid people news.

[–] al_Kaholic 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Man if it gets rid of the junk mail flyers I get maybe it's worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I come from the future!

Now you need a subscription to get mail, including jury summons. The subscription will be $100/mo but that's actually not too bad after the 2026 inflation. Despite paying for your subscription, there will be even more ads. Also they'll wrap your jury summons in a random ad each time. Damaging the electronics in your reusable box will result in a fee.

[–] al_Kaholic 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, they don't let people like me serve on juries. Just make a official government email and be done with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We still have to get the summons and show up in order to get out of jury duty.

Email would completely defeat the purpose; then people wouldn't read their spam!

[–] al_Kaholic 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure you could program your email client to not send official government emails to spam but what do I know?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But then nobody would have to sign up for a crony postal replacement.

[–] al_Kaholic 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So like it's good for the American Public and the environment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

😭 if only we done that entirely different thing instead of Amazon taking over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago