Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more

Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by bilbo0s on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:18PM (#23023720)

>Paying out a lot more to the federal government than they receive back does not mean these states are doing well and others poorly.

Sigh.

Even if we look at a list of states by GDP, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts would still be perennial top 10 states. Even a list of states by GDP per capita, they all still are perennial top 10s. Per capita, I would bet that Massachusetts is number 1? (Maybe NY might edge them out? But I'd definitely bet they're number 1 or 2.)

Listen man, I don't even like Illinois. I hate Chicago. But facts are facts. They make a $#!t ton of money. And not the easy way doing financial engineering like New York. They do it the hard way with a huge diversified economy. Few states are like that. It's just a fact man.

Are you going to say that GDP is not a good indication of what a state produces?

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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by Acrobatic_Road on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:23PM (#23023784)

Their high GDP per capita is not going to fix their insolvent pensions or runaway spending. Illinois has a BBB credit rating (just above junk!). Are you really just going to ignore that because of high GDP? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_credit_...

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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by selimthegrim on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:46PM (#23024076)

There’s plenty of financial engineering in Chicago last I checked.

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