Cuffed in the back of a van with no seatbelts. You can get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt in your car.

  • Specal@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If you take an industry, and make it owned and run by the workers, take the NHS of the UK for example. It’s paid for by taxes, therefore owned by the public, and is run by the public, that’s socialism. But just paying tax alone to have more services isn’t socialism. Socialism is defined by the ownership and regulation of business and service by the people.

    So paying taxes for the government to pay a private company to do the work is not socialism, for example madicaid in the US.

    It doesn’t seem like a big difference at first but the results are massively different.