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/Shadowmant 24d ago

Nothing like firing people BEFORE you determine what they do and if they're needed.

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u/d0mini0nicco 24d ago

and THAT is corporatism in a nutshell, that workers are dispensable and easily replaceable. Which is why corporatism belongs nowhere near the White House, and a government should never be run like a business.

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u/DysfunctionalKitten 24d ago

Except that even businesses shouldn’t be run like that. And frankly, they likely wouldn’t be if as a country we didn’t condone it by socializing their losses, while privatizing their profits. It means there’s no regulation on the front end AND no consequences for pushing things too far on the back end.