The food industry and housing should be nationalized.
It’s dumb healthcare and education are regarded as essential and are nationalized, yet food and housing aren’t.
They should all be nationalized, or if anything, food and housing should be nationalized instead of education.
Until consumers and workers are in control of what they need, they will continue to be slaves of the elite, held hostage with totally unfair and unnecessary inflation and relative stagnation of wages.
Food is a hundred times easier to produce today than it was centuries ago, yet we have to work just as hard, or harder for it, it’s intolerably absurd.
There are a few ways I can think of that this could be accomplished, one is by government printing as much money as it needs debt free to purchase them, which brings me to another point: taxes and private central banks don’t need to exist, they’re immoral, inefficient and antiquated. Government can just print as much money as it needs to without incurring debt, it should also be able to lend money to people who need it at zero interest.
Mass production of food/housing should be nationalized, but small scale production can remain privatized.
People who work in these industries should be paid a lot more, and government should hire as many people to work in these industries as possible, maximizing employment rather than minimizing it like private corporations do, all the while charging consumers as little as possible.
These industries should also be made as green, as natural as possible, no GMO or growth hormones unless absolutely necessary.
Preferably we’ll be able to produce enough food to feed everyone without altering it.
Herbicides, pesticides and unnatural fertilizers will probably still be necessary, unfortunately.
All the other essential goods and services should be nationalized too, from appliances like refrigerators and stoves, to furniture, to clothing/textiles.
Perhaps some mass production of clothing/textiles can be left private for creativity’s sake, altho it will have a lot of trouble competing with state clothing/textiles, I would imagine, since it will manufacture and distribute high quality clothes at low prices.
Basically the economy should be divided into two, government should takeover what’s essential, and as for what’s inessential, that I’m not as concerned with, because it’s, well, inessential.
either it can be left completely private, or some regulation can exist, like handing mass private production from capitalists over to workers, and/or some regulation of mass private production, to make sure prices and wages are fair, and the environment isn’t paying a heavy toll for things that don’t need to be produced, or worse, are damaging to the health and welfare of the people.
Perhaps three major parties can exist over the question of what to do with the private sector of the economy, but all three parties should agree that essential industries need to remain socialized.
One party will advocate for the abolishment of the private sector altogether, or at least a major reduction of it, the other will advocate for more environmentalist and syndicalist regulation of it, and the other party will argue for less regulation of it.