Thing is, when the economy is already going downhill… You ought to increase government spending instead of reducing it. It puts more money in the economy. More people with jobs also spend more money at businesses that employ people.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
Submitted 2 months ago by Mog_Spawn@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well unfortunately the President of the United States is bad at business and the Republicans are …Republicans. The only thing that matters to either are rich people.
GorGor@startrek.website 2 months ago
He is a moron to be sure, but crashes like this make opportunities for those with means to gobble up the big stuff cheap. Sure ground beef is expensive as fuck right now but I bet the wagu steak hasn’t changed nearly as much. Hell when the economy is going well the rabble want a taste of the good stuff. Better to keep them in their place.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Oh I know, I’m just fully enjoying the irony of watching the man who was supposed to lower the grocery prices make fewer people be able to afford groceries.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
There is an argument to be made that having secure high paying government jobs harms other sectors by taking employees and raising average pay, forcing them to keep up. We aren’t anywhere near that being an issue though, but there is a limit where more government jobs can make recovery harder, when other sectors go out of business competing with it and there’s nowhere for anyone to go once the government jobs close.
frunch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
According to the article, it is due to restructuring that has nothing to do with the spite layoffs being used by the Trump administration to punish Democrats for their unwillingness to support a dramatic 2x increase to healthcare expenses for Americans.
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
[deleted]henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Unfortunately, the money has already been pocketed.
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
oh whew, for a second I thought that there was a non-political layoff in our Govt. /s
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
AFAIK JPL is part of the University of California, not NASA and I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first round of layoffs at JPL in the last few years.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
About JPL JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
High level workers, it’s like Christmas for oversea companies. Keep forcing them to migrate because they’re definitely worth it.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Mich easier to just write a cheque of money money to Elon. I hear he likes taking public money 💰💰💰.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Defund Space X
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
to put that into context - according to wiki, jpl has about 5500 employees
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months ago
A literal decimation.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
The literal one involved executions.