Workers of the World, Relax!

[MisterP]

2. this'd happen all the time in the old MIC companies before "rightsizing"

from Berkeley Heights to San Jose "warehouses" full of 40-something engineers and managers sat around playing whist waiting for better times

then the Cold War ended and they threatened a "peace dividend," so they rightsized and let thousands go: the Supercollider was shuttered; but instead of turning to productive stuff like solar panels and HSR trains they further separated pork-barrel divsiion between investment and result: the $400B F-35 might be only the beginning