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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by JKCalhoun on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:13AM (#43068167)
It's wild — people that look at employment of the citizens of this country as just data to feed into some kind of profit/waste equation that needs to maximize profit, discard any hint of waste.

It's not waste when those employed have paychecks to spend in the economy. What would Corporate think if half the population of the U.S. were unemployed and/or homeless?

I guess that's fine as long as profits have been maximized.

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by _dark_matter_ on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:48AM (#43068920)
Right? I am astounded by these takes. If every corp and every job was this way, our country would be a high-stress, unemployed wasteland. Any org will drop thousands in a heartbeat. Your family would never be safe.

We work so hard already. We already have such high stress. I do not believe we need to eke out the last %s of profit to pass to shareholders and create crushing stress and work on those remaining.

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