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No, I haven't. What I have done is to say that we are going to have to come up with a different way to distribute wealth besides wages paid for work. Advances in automation mean that wages won't do the job anymore. Nationalizing big business would be one way to do that; I don't claim it's the only one, and I'd be happy to entertain alternative suggestions.
Either private industry pays your wage or the government pays it. There is no third alternative. You simply refuse to admit the obvious.
What we have hear is a failure of the imagination.
Suppose you can't get a job because all the work is being done by machines. Then neither private industry nor the government pays your wages. You just plain don't have any wages and can't get them. What happens then?
This is what we need to be thinking about. If you don't like the idea of nationalizing publicly-traded corporations, find an alternative.
Notice that you failed to name the alternative to government or private industry paying your wage.
FAIL.