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submitted 3 months ago by ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Immediately following privatization, CN began prioritizing its new shareholders—within less than a year, CN initiated its first dividend payout in 1996, delivering $99 million to shareholders. Since then, dividend growth has been explosive, with increases of between 10 and 30 per cent year-over-year every year from 1997 to 2019, with the exception of a seven per cent increase in 2010.

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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Let’s make a test for this:

  • is it an industry you’d be forced to save if it went bankrupt?
  • is it a natural monopoly, or a field that consistently concentrates to at most 1-3 companies?
  • is it so important that a labour strike or shortage causes significant external impact to the economy as a whole?
  • is it a foundational infrastructure with no viable alternative replacements?

If you answered yes to these questions, then you should nationalize it.

The free market can’t or won’t ever provide a better service, and there’s no viable replacement. There’s no value in it being private, in fact, it’s negative value as the corporate margin acts as a tax anyways. If you took all the corporate profit and dividends and reinvested, you would be further ahead than privately owned.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago
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