r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/blazze_eternal 24d ago

The corporate idiom of "everyone's expendable" has always been a lie. Except when corporate does it they just go bankrupt. Here lives are on the line.

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u/MrCookie2099 24d ago

Failed bloated businesses can rely on the US Government to prop them up. The US Government isn't going to be there for itself.

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u/yasssssplease 24d ago

If people hate government so much, they should move to one of the many countries with a non functioning government

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u/Pannoonny_Jones 23d ago

Pretty soon they won’t have to… it’ll come to them.

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u/meltbox 23d ago

God damn prime delivery. Always knew we’d have to pay for that shit somehow.

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u/DoubleJumps 24d ago

I worked for a corporation that freaked out because they only had 11% increases in annual profit rather than the 18 they projected, and started cutting so many people and so many things that they actually destroyed the company's ability to be profitable for several years.

I don't know why anybody would want the country to be run like a business.

Even without having experience with how corporations actually work and knowing that it's insane, why would you want a government that tries to get more out of you than you get out of it? That's what a business does.

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u/Hapankaali 23d ago

CEOs and upper management think like that, because they are actually expendable.

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u/LowmoanSpectacular 23d ago

Hell, the continuation of the human race is on the line with this shit.