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There’s academic research that shows a pattern like you describe taking off during the Reagan era of union busting.

Since then, filling important roles (at the grunt level) has taken longer, wages aren’t keeping up.

It’s almost as if it’s stupidly inefficient to have millions of workers negotiating all this on their own.

Open standards in employment make the whole process smoother. Waste less human hours. But also increase worker security, which our system has been trying to undermine to the benefit of corporate masters for decades

(Seriously; Alan Greenspan reported to Congress that growing worker insecurity was good for business during the Clinton admin)

Back in college I researched history of nuclear energy in the US during the 50s and 60s

Thorium reactors were much further ahead and being funded by the government

Then one Naval officer made the case to arm subs with nukes

Funding for thorium dried up and was funneled into less safe breeder style reactors

Unless this is funding thorium reactors, I’ll be hard pressed to see this as anything but a stealthy ploy to reinvent weapons production. What with the Orange Orangutan pissing off the world, championing Space Farce, some paranoids in DC probably think we need to build more nukes to match NK and Iran.