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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by glimshe on Sunday February 16, 2025 @06:17AM (#43067215)
The advocates of Musk's firings will say that if these people could command a higher salary, they should be in the private industry producing goods and services for the population rather than the inherently wasteful government positions.
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by throw0101d on Sunday February 16, 2025 @07:32AM (#43067523)
> […] they should be in the private industry producing goods and services for the population rather than the inherently wasteful government positions.

In this particular case, the government positions were maintaining the US's nuclear arsenal. Not sure how "wasteful" having a nuclear deterrent is.

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by ty6853 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:25AM (#43067774)
Could we privatize the arsenal to increase efficiency?
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by johnnyanmac on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:52PM (#43072592)
If you're not joking: what private entity would you trust to not start WW3?
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by pfdietz on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:52AM (#43067981)
The profit-making part is when we pull back from being world policeman and instead sell nuclear weapons and weapon systems. Sorry, we won't go to war for you, but how about some H-bombs, Taiwan?
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by johnnyanmac on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:53PM (#43072606)
We're really going to pull a Cuban Missle Crisis again? but x10? I guess they'll be cheered on this time.
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by drawkward on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:49AM (#43067944)
Government work is literally goods and services for the population.

This is some serious 1984 war is peace shit.

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by insane_dreamer on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:02PM (#43070626)
Thankfully this isn't the case or you would get the least talented people in government, making it even more ineffective and wasteful.
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