Great.. So we are in agreement that sometimes it’s ok for government to get involved and use money to either spearhead some R&D for tech to advance in this country….or in some cases to protect tech in this country when it is threatened by possibly illegal activity or forced IP transfer as a condition of doing business in that country…especially when foreign entities expect nonsuch barriers and conditions to exist the other way around.. .
And for example it makes no sense for the US government to invest $250 million into a US company to develop advanced battery technology in the US with a lot of patents and IP that could have spearheaded technology critical for green industries in the US….but then sit idle as the company goes under, allowing such companies that received such grants to subsequently gets acquired by Chinese holding company Wanxiang Group, because “the US government shouldn’t interfere with the ‘free market’ “….the US government should continue to spend money on such R&D to develop cutting edge technology that arguably otherwise would not have been developed in “the free market” in the first place, if short term profitablity was the only deciding factor….but shouldbt be hands off and then allow such cutting edge technology to simply leave this country…it makes no sense that the US government and US taxpayers should continue to foot the bill for such cutting edge research and development in strategic industries for the future of the US, but when it fails, then allow it to be transferred abroad….
Also, unrelated …shouldn’t the US government step in , if healthcare insurance companies in the interest of shareholder profitability, decides to stop paying us doctors and dentists and healthcare professions current agreed upon service charges, and instead flies in several thousands of doctors, dentists and medical professionals from overseas via a guest worker visa program, where they can provide “almost as good” medical coverage at 1/4 the normal agreed upon bill out rate ……analogous to how some tech CEOs gets cheaper labor by using workers from abroad, so that company can provide those $399 Walmart specials while enjoying that huge shareholder profitability. After all, for many both insurance and healthcare costs are no longer affordable, and a Walmart like solution would be a good short term fix for a good percentage of the people that can’t afford it….And then , you can have the creative bsuiness owners that setup a medical services consulting company that offers guest visa and H1B visas to foreign doctors, dentists, and healthcare professionals from abroad who don’t mind working at substandard US wages and rotating in and out of guest worker visas…so that these medical services consulting companies can then go bid on insurance contracts to provide affordable health care services to insurance subscribers, cutting out a lot of US trained doctors, dentists, health care professions who spent time, energy, money on all those pesky board certifications that are nothing but bureacractic red tape… kinda of like how the tech industry was sort of “evolving” to ….So the average american can now go to Walmart and get that Walmart priced laptop with that Walmart priced healthcare checkup… Would we want the US government to get involved or not?
I am certainly very fortunate that I am significantly much luckier than a majority of my peers, financially.. But having spent a considerable about if time with many of my peers that aren’t so lucky, let’s just say that I’ve learned to understand why many American workers are so frustrated.
