bmolina.bsky.social
Urbanist, Environmental advocate, economic development enthusiast. #boston #yimby
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They wouldn't mail it?
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Please take this energy to Maine and go after Susan Collins. Might be just as futile, but it's possible in a year where the economy could be dead in November.
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It wasn't, I'm talking about administrative bloat (I wouldn't include research in that term).
The reason I brought it up is because in my experience, the bloat is an unemployment problem if we're talking about reducing bloat.
Everyone wants to save money until friends/family are unemployed.
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I wasn't in research. I was on the general administration side at a business school. And without naming names, there was a pretty public battle between the neighborhood they were in and the university.
They had absurd money, and they were very overstaffed.
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Will they?
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I used to work at a university, and my impression while there was that it became sort of a jobs program. They employ the community in exchange for taking more land/getting more money.
There's absolutely bloat, but who is going to deal with the unemployment that comes from trimming the fat?
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Ok.
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No. They're not. But they're also not supposed to fire the civil servants that keep things orderly.
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We're saying the same thing.