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This math has me a little confused... Google is the most profitable company in the US, around $130B per year. If the government owned half of Google, and allocated half of all profits to those Americans under the poverty line (~36M), each person would get $1,800 per year or $150 per month

Tony Sullivan

@tonysull.co

That is help for sure, but it is (A) only $65B in aid, congress recently approved $90B new spending for a war no one voted for (2) OpenAI isn't anywhere near that level of profit (D) allows the state to own production...in an important industry...that people want better regulated.

6/8/26, 6:30 pm0 reposts0 likes

Tony Sullivan

@tonysull.co

6 Aug

I really don't see the upside to the government taking over partial ownership of OpenAI or similar. This is an honest question - how would it actually help and where does the math work out in favor of it?