[VLM]

red doesn't sell well in the USA. We'll have full communism but we'll market it as something else. Probably still calling it the "free market capitalism". That's what we inaccurately call our current system and nobody blinks.

Most likely it'll roll out like public libraries / utilities. I already drive on government owned streets kept safe by government paid cops and clean by government paid trash pickup to visit the government owned library to use the government owned photocopier when I need to do legacy media stuff. Not a huge extension of the concept at the library to use the government owned 3d printer to make stuff or the government owned protein sequencer to make me soylent-tier food, maybe in 30 years.

[geggam]

All of those govt paid employees are paid by you... their employer.

Not the govt.

The govt owns nothing nor employees anyone.

[dragonwriter]

The government owns things and employs people as much as any corporation does, and as much as the government exists at all.

[geggam]

The govt is a structure which answers to the people and is supposedly for the betterment of the people. The government exists only because you consent to be governed. At any given moment you can revoke that consent. This govt hasnt been looking out for the peoples interests in a long time.

[gambiting]

I genuinely don't see the distinction.