NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

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• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  to put that into context - according to wiki, jpl has about 5500 employees

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A literal decimation.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The literal one involved executions.

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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • GorGor@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, the money has already been pocketed.

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  • northendtrooper@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh whew, for a second I thought that there was a non-political layoff in our Govt. /s

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      www.jpl.nasa.gov

      About JPL JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech.

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• DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  High level workers, it’s like Christmas for oversea companies. Keep forcing them to migrate because they’re definitely worth it.

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mich easier to just write a cheque of money money to Elon. I hear he likes taking public money 💰💰💰.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Defund Space X

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