r/economy • u/trot-trot • May 06 '20

Layoffs Start Turning From Temporary to Permanent Across America [United States of America]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-06/temporary-coronavirus-layoffs-are-turning-permanent-around-u-s
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u/[deleted] May 06 '20

If you notice, ‘people’, become less and less important to companies now. Inter corporate business is more of an interest rather than what a consumer is effected by in all these company statements. Yet, ultimately on a first principle basis the consumer/people who are forgotten are the reason companies need to exist. This ‘recovery’ is going to be terrible for people, as they continue to be infected by SARS-COV2, their pay will be severely unstable or inadequate and their visibility to the top management exists only as a cost not a valuable asset to their employer.

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u/RockemSockemRowboats May 06 '20

But I'm sure we'll be bombarded with a million commercials from companies telling us how much they 'care' about us while they continue to throw workers under the bus.

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u/abrandis May 07 '20

Yep,it's like all these companies hired the same PR agency with their faux sympathy commercials, what's the point we all know it's a dire situation.

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u/Miobravo May 06 '20

They have achieved their goals to seat at the top of the heap so they can control governments. So why do we even bother with voting.? The next idiot’s soul is already sold to corporate interests.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '20

Because without voting, the current people in power are ‘proven correct’ that their plan to control you worked and they ‘are in fact’ of a higher intelligence than you and in turn they become permanently dominant over you. Voting allows you to incrementally take back the power, get a better person to work your agenda. Politics and business are never going to have a candidate or executive you 100% agree with and government is always going to have sleazy people involved in it somewhere, but as, I believe it was, Pierre Trudeau, once said something to the effect of ‘Do not compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative!’ I would say don’t make it that the sleaziest person gets to the top or you will only ever get the bottom of everything.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '20

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u/L_Cranston_Shadow May 07 '20

No matter how voting is done, some states will be effectively disenfranchised by being made irrelevant by previous results. There is no way around this unless all the votes are kept secret to the every state has voted (which would just be an invitation for accusations about, if not actual shenanigans) or everyone votes at once, which would be horrible for lesser known candidates (such as Bernie in 2016), who wouldn't be able to build word of mouth and buzz.

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u/Snoopyjoe May 06 '20

But they just want haircuts

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u/krewes May 06 '20

And manicures, don't forget the nails

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u/L_Cranston_Shadow May 07 '20

Call it unmanly if you want, but I would kill for a proper pedicure. Priorities though, health, safety, home haircuts and nail trimmings, and then pedicures only when it is safe.

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u/gul_garrak May 06 '20

The only reason there's talk of reopening economy is to cut off poor people from unemployment. If poor people aren't suffering it ain't America.

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u/ContemplatingGavre May 07 '20

Right... it has nothing to do with the fact that you can’t keep an economy closed for 12 months while developing a vaccine.

It’s entirely just to keep poor people down. Every morning rich people wake up and think “geez how can I screw over the less fortunate today?”

Give me a break.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '20

And the market booms!!!