[devoply]

> Privatizing profits and socializing losses refers to the practice of treating firms' earnings as the rightful property of their shareholders, while treating losses as a responsibility that society as a whole must shoulder, for example through taxpayer-funded subsidies or bailouts.

[friedman23]

which software businesses have been bailed out by the government?

[seem_2211]

Not really related to what we're talking about here though?