Comment by TMWNN
1 month ago
> How is it you're reading "x is subsidized" - a simple fact - to mean "subsidizing x is bad" - a matter of opinion that varies from subsidy to subsidy and company to company?
You and I, and everyone else, knows what "Musk got subsidies" means to the mentally reddited of the world:
>the US government giving sacks full of cash to Musk just because it feels like it.
> You and I, and everyone else, knows what "Musk got subsidies" means to the mentally reddited of the world…
That he should be grateful for the taxpayers support? That government interventions can, at times, be highly successful?
Do you base every conversation on "what would the dumbest Redditor think"?
>Do you base every conversation on "what would the dumbest Redditor think"?
Sadly, the mentally reddited are too numerous and widespread—including on HN—to always blightely ignore.
And in retaliation, you pretend the meaning of "subsidy" is some deep unknowable thing instead of a pretty clear dictionary definition for a while?
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