The process of "unloading" was common practice in the Soviet Gulag. To reduce official mortality rates in camps, administrators would release critically or terminally ill detainees then not count the deaths of those who perished soon afterward.

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You can count on more mass layoffs through to the end of the year, just like any other year. The difference now is that the consequences for people will be even more dire with Trump slashing every possible social service.

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Groceries, health insurance, rent, gas - all unaffordable. But that makes no difference to corporate executives. They're going to do what they do every Q4 and lay off thousands of people across the country to get their financials back in the black by year-end.

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That's just the long-standing term for it, even for debt that is going to be paid off on time.

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The term "to service its debt" is so fucking bleak. Not to pay it off, that's literally impossible, but to pay the forever-interest on the money borrowed against the company's own value.

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