Not really the same thing, though, imo. The government should be putting the people before anything else when making policies. Your individual with a mobile doesn't have that kind of consideration alongside the phone company.
Furthermore, businesses should carry their own risk when seeking profits. I understand that this may make firms very conservative when investing abroad, but they probably should be anyway. Risk analysis, anyone ?
Finally, governments do this to individuals without any recompense (think about Gordon Brown and SUVs or the turnaround on feed-in tariffs). Why should companies be any different ?
Having written these things down it seems to read like an advert for nationalisation
because the government should, theoretically, invest the money itself rather than wait for circumstances to change and incur enormous reparations. The Germans are being hit for 4 billion euros by Vattenfall. They may as well have (with hindsight, obvs) invested that directly in their own energy sector. Then they could have reaped the profits between the investment and the enactment of reactor closures.
In summary, I appear to be aligned with Corbyn
Ultimately, what I want to avoid is companies telling governments, "If you do that we are going to hit you for $$$, so don't do it."
