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.

I know a few schools in my area tried to institute zero tolerance no phones rule and the screaming from parents was loud enough that they gave up. One of the big sticking points was because of school shootings. Another was that schools have been bad about getting kids on the bus, that kids are getting lost or even ending up in bus depots at the end of the day.

The one I’m interested in is the “mini” reactors. They can build them in a fraction of the time. And from what I’ve read they appear to generally be “safer”, but it’s always hard to tell with all the bullshit we all get peddled.

I’m all for renewables and had hoped they’d have been more implemented by now, but here we are…

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.