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A comment on Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned. Parent comment

Re:Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands ... by eanzenberg on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:39PM (#23327845)
You’re right, we don’t have a free market. We don’t have the freedom to leave our homes and shop at will. Stores don’t have the freedom to be open. People don’t have the freedom to provide services. So until our government overlords deem it ok, allowing businesses to fail at-will in the existing climate makes little sense.
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Re:Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands ... by vkou on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:23AM (#23333371)
Most stores are permitted to be open, no healthy American is currently locked in their home, delivery services will bring anything you want to your doorstep, and only a few services are currently shut down.

Yet for some reason, nobody's buying from the stores that are open.

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Re:Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands ... by cwhiz on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:46PM (#23340183)
We should offer to businesses what we offered to individuals. A check of inconsequential value and a hearty “go fuck yourself.”
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