• Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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    I’m fine with a bailout as long as we take the appropriate share of the company along with it. And once we own it, there’s no more turning people away either since you’ve already turned your company into a state asset.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      America’s a corporate dictatorship. You and I both know this will never happen without a regime change.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.worksBanned
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    Ah, the FAIR Plan’s latest bailout is peak California kabuki theater. Insurers fleece homeowners under the guise of “solvency” while regulators nod along, pretending this isn’t a transfer of corporate risk to the public. Classic regulatory capture—Lara’s “consumer protection” doublespeak would be laughable if it weren’t so corrosive.

    Wildfires now fund shareholder dividends. The assessment’s 50/50 split? A veneer of shared sacrifice masking systemic rot. Insurers offload losses onto policies they already priced to oblivion, then lobby for rules letting them double-dip. Consumer Watchdog’s legal threats? Band-Aids on a hemorrhage.

    We’re trapped in a burnout loop. Same fault lines, same failed mitigations, same communities footing the bill. Thirty years since the last bailout, and we’ve learned nothing but how to monetize despair. The market isn’t “unbalanced”—it’s rigged.