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by turns0ut 1432 days ago
Decades ago, Mitt Romney and crew once made employees build the stage he stood on to announce they’re all fired.

Seeing employees as nothing more than a cost center is not new.

Unions were busted, pensions ransacked, through decades of leveraged buyouts, intentionally torpedoing worker savings.

This was no accident; in the US, just like Brexit, it was intentional on the part of business and legislators. Consolidated power over agency is their goal.