• ralphio@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Mainly when people talk about this they mean privatization through some convoluted scheme. Look up some of Thatcher’s policies for some out there examples. Outsourcing supply chains is a big part of this privatization, and probably what the commenter meant was that not funding domestic chip production led to this mess.