• @Boddhisatva
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    2 days ago

    Investment. That means they are putting money in and expecting to make a profit. They will dump $100 million billion in the U.S. and we’ll have to pay them back… with interest. In other words, we’ll get $100 million billion worth of infrastructure, or something, and end up paying $200 million billion or more for it with our taxes. No matter what the Republicans say, privatization is never a good thing.

    Edit: Oops! Meant to say billion but my fingers were working faster than my brain.

    • @RapidcreekOP
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      132 days ago

      100 Billion

      Softbank is a well known super investment operation from Hong Kong. They don’t lay out money for grifters unless, of course, it would make them even more money.

      • @Boddhisatva
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        42 days ago

        Thanks for the correction. And yes, no one is investing that kind of money unless they are certain they will be getting a substantial return on investment.

    • @dirthawker0
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      12 days ago

      Isn’t that what they’ve been doing in Africa?

  • @[email protected]
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    52 days ago

    So it’s like build back better but a Chinese investment firm makes billions on the side?

    • @AA5B
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      32 days ago

      Plus you don’t have to reach any sort of consensus or achieve a majority of support. It’s also not subject to filibuster