• finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    19 hours ago

    Gorsh, if only the FAA had more employees. Did the FAA use to have more employees? What happened to them? /sarcasm

    • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      Honestly, I wonder how long til we have to close down an airport because staff just stops showing up entirely. I feel like absenteeism has to have gone exponential.

      With the expense of flights, I also do think a lot about whether or not this disproportionately affects demographics who were more likely to have voted for Trump.

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        18 hours ago

        Wait…you think the vast majority of trump voters are wealthy?

        Uhhhhhh…I don’t even know how to respond to that without feeling like I’m talking down to you.

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          13 hours ago

          Wealthy people will be less affected. They will get a different flight and just charge it. Poorer people will need to wait for a refund or insurance to pay to get an alternative.

          I would also expect that the workers in states with less social benefits are more likely to have the staff not show up as they have to earn money elsewhere.