Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt’s actually pretty exportable. There’s a lot of countries out there that have natural resources that should be the property of the people instead of wealthy individuals.
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 day ago
If you’re going to start nationalizing previously established resources, that’s going to have all sorts of wild reprecussions and is not what Norway did.
But beyond the logistics, which similarly profitable resources are you thinking of?
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Norway did that, though. The pension fund that’s financed from that oil, is nationally owned, iirc.
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
In other words, Norway established this stuff pretty quickly when oil was discovered. That’s wildly different from taking over existing private enterprise.
People really don’t like it when you take things away as opposed to having a set of rules before anyone begins.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
We take nothing away and give everything to the people. Capitalists are the problem.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Norway did nationalize their oil though?
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
In other words, Norway established this stuff pretty quickly when oil was discovered. That’s wildly different from taking over existing private enterprise.
People really don’t like it when you take things away as opposed to having a set of rules before anyone begins.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well if course it won’t be the same. Thats why you have to export it.
All of them. All of a nations natural resources rightfully belong to the people from oil to water. From rare earth minerals to timber.
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Yes and we have a liberal democracy to determine how best to use them. Thankfully, most folks understand that simply nationalizing resources comes with huge reprecussions which greatly outweigh the gains.
Do you have a successful example of your proposal in mind?
Cooper8@feddit.online 1 day ago
Most Oil and Gas reserves remaining in the US are on public land, as is the massive lithium deposit just discovered in southeastern Oregon. Then there are the seabed polymetalic nodules that will be mined sooner or later. There are plenty of opportunities to nationalize natural resources, what is lacking is political will.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
A liberal democracy isn’t exactly a free democracy. Billionnaires have far more buying power and so the odds are much more in their favour to bribe and corrupt institutions. That is why they like “liberal” democracy and corporate dictatorships.
If you want to understand, then go to one of those US “for profit” prisons. Works well, huh?