not only will we lose a ton of specialized expertise, we will have a hard time ever getting it back
because if we manage to pull ourselves out of this, the people who are interested in these jobs will know they do not come with the stability it was assumed they did
because if we manage to pull ourselves out of this, the people who are interested in these jobs will know they do not come with the stability it was assumed they did
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Faine Greenwood
It is not in fact easy for highly specialized government workers in roles like “proscribed fire management and managing sled dog kennels” to find new jobs, as this piece points out
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
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Imagine ya fire the person who knows how to cure cancer, shelfing their work forever.... What are they gunna do?
Ya crushed thier passion
Theyr gunna move on cuz they have to, if just to survive
Now that's gone, we are literally going to be paying for it for decades.
If your game flops, you get laid off with your entire studio.
If your game’s a runaway success, you … get laid off with your entire studio 🙃.
That model brought to the administrative state is catastrophic.
All this shit makes me sad
It describes how cucked Americans are. We are "sweet treat pilled"; we can't imagine life without a bunch of worthless small conveniences: Amazon, shein, fast food.
If we don't get our sweet treats, we will elect hitler.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Treatler
People seem to value having an underclass of gig servants to boss around more than they value a booming economy.
https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf
We have to raise taxes on everyone at this stage.
Nothing else will work.
The simple fact of the matter is that we live in a wealthy society, and we have all been skipping out on the bill.
Taxes are too low. Everyone needs to pay more.
I get why, but it's dishonest.
this isnt to say we shouldnt do it, but theres no getting around higher taxes for most people
Federal taxes purely deal with inequality and reduce the power the wealthy can use over systems.
Printing money is how the federal budget is paid, and the question is if the services are worth the inflation.
But the numbers don't lie: there's no building back from this without everyone pitching in a little
"Purge every expert"