Subsidies- a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.
However the statement makes you feel I have a question that I can’t make sense of. Is this different from state sponsorship? Regardless of what you feel of any specific subsidies or groups of subsidies, is it just another way of having state sponsored business? Well due to the decision of corporation having a right to vote, I believe we can look at subsidies from a leftist point of view. If corporations can vote as actual people do, I’ve got a new industry in need of help to make whole. The Peoples of the United States are part of a union called the workforce. In one of the most shocking moments within our own “societal measure of economies”, that workforce is down currently between 10-25%. That’s not even the analysis of how many of those jobs are barely keeping out of homelessness.
If shutting down the economy with some degree of agency will cause a rise in mortality, what about a shutting down due to the fragility of institutions? What about the newly termed “essential” jobs? Defined just as a basic needs (consumable/service) so people could function in times of crisis; the way the structures cut growth incentives for profit. It’s not really an argument although I’ll listen for a bit so long as its cogent. Have empathy and sorrow for the loss of life. We know the limits of the current systems and leaders incapable of understanding the moment. Now there needs to be a lot of work in framing the argument for differences achievable right now with goals for the future. If they say corporations are people, the people’s corporation need subsidies because the people’s ‘industry‘ is the work force because that workforce comprises all of industry.
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