Maximillian Alvarez

Maximillian Alvarez

Yeah, man, this is what happens when you do and commit to the just-in-time production model. Again, everyone who listens to the show will know my rants about it, but we fucking told everyone that this was going to happen. You can’t just keep cutting operating costs year after year after year, slashing the workforce that makes one of our most vital supply chains run year after year after year. We know the statistics. There used to be over 500,000 folks working on the railroads in 1980. Now there’s less than 150,000. The rail carriers have collectively cut 30% of their workforce in the past five or six years alone.
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Maximillian Alvarez

Maximillian Alvarez
Yeah, man, this is what happens when you do and commit to the just-in-time production model. Again, everyone who listens to the show will know my rants about it, but we fucking told everyone that this was going to happen. You can’t just keep cutting operating costs year after year after year, slashing the workforce that makes one of our most vital supply chains run year after year after year. We know the statistics. There used to be over 500,000 folks working on the railroads in 1980. Now there’s less than 150,000. The rail carriers have collectively cut 30% of their workforce in the past five or six years alone.
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