Not to be Mr. Reductive Vulgar Marxist here but I think you can't entirely ignore how much of this is about disciplining labor
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There are certainly elements of pure Trumpian cheapness, an ideological commitment to disempowering government, and just ordinary fascist cruelty in it, to be sure
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But consider that these are often relatively good-paying jobs, with union representation (many NIH cancer researchers unionized in 2023), doing work that basically only happens because of the government or universities
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So now workers who made good salaries and did protected and relatively stable work either in academia or the public sector are out of work, and experiencing precariousness, and they're getting increasingly desperate with most of their career options now cut off
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So who has a ton of money, an increasingly obvious desire to live forever (or at least be the only people with access to decent medical care and the benefits of such research), and now, a compliant, defenseless labor market full of specialized workers with nowhere else to go?
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