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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by dantheman on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:31PM (#23026572)
It's great for city workers to make a great wage - just pay for it. Stop pulling shenanigans with pension systems. We just had 11 years of unprecedented growth and pension systems only got worse - expanding benefits and maintaining impossible growth targets.

City and state governments don't pay the bills - that's the problems. Any cuts they make will hurt them in elections, so they just kick the can down the road to the next government.

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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by lsh123 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:24PM (#23027120)
And another important component is unions. Politician wants to get elected. Unions can help. So politician have to pay back unions later. Can’t break this cycle unless public worker unions are banned.
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