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Comment by tehjoker

1 hour ago

If it is capital intensive and we require the work be done in the public benefit, the only options are international consortia or nationalization. Non-profits will be guided by the interests of the rich and are unaccountable to the public. Worker cooperatives are unlikely to be well capitalized (because what rich person would want to invest and not have control) and will still have private profit incentives.

Peer production processes (like open source) require that the inputs be specialized knowledge and relatively small amounts of capital.