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Historically, a bailout by the US government has effectively been them buying shares in the company at bargain basement prices, and the government has actually made a tidy profit a few years later on many of them.
It's one of the few things they do where there isn't much of a downside.
Handing a fuck ton of wealth to the already wealthy and propping up market bubble behaviors feels like it might be a downside.
Selling a massive chunk of your company to the government isn't something you want to happen, and definitely isn't "handing money to the wealthy"
The existing shareholders definitely don't come out on top in a bailout.
How about the previous shareholders, who somehow miraculously predicted the market?
That is not how they happened in 08, however.
There's no upside to propping up such a destructive and exploitative system, though.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well yes and no.
If the government wanted to redo the system entirely then that's great. Let the corps fail.
Unfortunately they are not looking to actually redo the system in any meaningful way. So letting many of these companies fail would cascade through the economy. Best result a difficult period and the market corrects. Wealth is slightly spread around. Worse case scenario people start starving (maybe revolution after that tho?)
We as regular people are put in a fucked position. Our leaders won't change the system, but if the system fails we starve. Unless we break the system ourselves, but then many of us get shot. But I guess that's usually how it goes
In how many of those bailouts the president was Mango Hitler in his current state of mind?
That is a valid point.
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