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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 13 Jun \ on: Price Inflation Moves Up Slightly, and Wages Still Aren't Keeping Up econ
If the Supreme Court lifts the injunction against RIFs, then tens of thousands of federal workers are going to hit the labor market in the very near future. That'll put strong downward pressure on wages and spike unemployment.
Yes, perhaps so, but it is necessary to right-size the state bureaucracy and right-size the unproductive spending that the state does out of habit. The only ones to really suffer from this will be the bureaucrats, those closest to the state money spigot and the war profiteers. Do we care how they survive? It may hurt us in the short-run but in the long-run it will help us.
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Oh yeah, it's deeply necessary. It's just worth preemptively explaining why those numbers are doing what they're going to do and be prepared for the fallout.
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It is worthwhile making sure the normies know and accept the fallout. There will still be a lot of noise from the economically and politically ignorant about how this damages everybody because the state is so important for them. There are a lot of normies that will never accept the fallout as being necessary, let alone a good thing.
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