And the time commitment. I have been having to work more time than ever before just to maintain. I would love to have a dog but I know I don’t have the time to properly care for one

That’s my go to but another great lineup would be Slipknot, Mudvayne, and Static X/Drowning Pool.

I think another thing that isn’t being talked about with these layoffs, which would call for more unionization and policy making, is that “AI” is taking over these jobs.

Also when companies merge, there are “redundant” employees. So like the recent Microsoft layoffs, those were going to happen.

Edit: this is to add to your point.

The lawmakers pretend they don’t understand. They know the benefits of aid aren’t going to the American workers, and because of suppressed wages and non-existent mandatory benefits, the tactic works. The general public is purposefully removed from how any of this works and that allows manipulators to run around yelling bullshit lies that sound true. The bureaucracy works to their advantage, and it’s why we are buried in it.

“Your call is very important to us.”

When will legacy media start telling it like it is? The general public has said for decades that the metrics that determine what a “good economy” is doesn’t tell the reality of the average American.

Don’t forget to include gerrymandering

Worse. It’s part of the school to prison pipeline. So they are basically going to remove the right to vote from these students in the future.

It wouldn’t stop any arrests, it basically only opens up the stock market for the companies.

Isn’t sales in general down across most sectors? This is them placing blame somewhere it really doesn’t belong. Did some bigots decide not to shop there? Maybe. But most of those people didn’t shop there anyways. Walmarts dominate the areas and is the go to for those people.

If you artificially limit the supply of whatever drug, the demand for that drug is also artificially inflated. Companies being companies can then increase the price of the drug based on those figures and make more profit without having to spend time and resources making more of those drugs.

Limiting the manufacture of those drugs also ensures that the market doesn’t get flooded with too much of that drug, keeping a baseline floor price of that drug.

If the pharmaceutical companies were advocating for the patients I would believe that the DEA is being ridiculous, but that’s not what’s happening here. You have pharmaceutical companies not producing those medications to the limits already set.

With the logic of “please daddy afea Don’t let me make more profits!” You would think those pharmaceutical manufacturers would be making more, but they aren’t. So it isn’t the DEA being the DEA in this instance.

I am curious if the limitations are due to lobbying from the manufacturers to create an artificial limit to the supply.

I wouldn’t be surprised based on how these manufacturers have operated in the past.