Capitalism says keep working!

“Will cost America”

Haha no. It will not cost working class people a cent. Which is most of America.

Truly sad part? The tourism benefit from it was estimated at 6$ billion... but NBC doesn't want that.

If the eclipse lost 700 million dollars, imagine what we can do if we did a general strike. The oligarchy would shit themselves.

Now do the math for everyone eating Taco Bell just before their shift

So, over 300 million people enjoying a once in a lifetime natural event cost "the economy" about as much money as a typical CEO steals in a day?

Sounds like misdirected anger.

Nothing was lost. Not a single penny!

People aren't being paid for every moment they remain on task. They're getting paid for works completed! They're getting paid for doing their job. They don't have to be at their desk/station/site every single moment to remain productive!

This idea that people need to be paid less if they do less work is absolute Insanity. People need to be paid a fair wage for completing jobs, whatever that may be.

People get PTO. It’s built into the cost of hiring workers. From the traffic last night, a LOT of them used vacation time, and probably generated tourism revenue as they traveled to see the eclipse.

Whoa, we generate that much money every four minutes? That's bonkers. ...remind me again why we need the executives, then?

"Journalism" is just rage bait now, they know exactly what they're doing with this headline and it pisses me off ... which is ironic.

It can't be lost if it doesn't exist

Remind me again why people from "non-shithole" countries would want to move to the US? The priorities on display here are beyond belief.

Decided to do some math of what I could totally see a corporate media outlet headline saying.

"Weekends are costing America $11,199,999,999,968 a year. Is it time to end weekends?"

I read an article headline yesterday claiming that it would generate $6 billion in economic output due to tourism. That would far outweigh the lost productivity.

Predictably idiotic headline. A few hours ago, before coming across this post, I visualized just such a stupid headline and chuckled to myself for thinking of such low-hanging fruit. And here it is.

A meaningless figure, mindlessly arrived at with the same abstract mathematical tools that could and should be also mentioning how much money is lost by keeping so many people poor and with hurdles, by NOT investing in education, on public health, on the environment...
But we never read these assholes talking about this in this manner, now do we?

It's the duty of every worker to produce as little value as possible while working.

• $700M in lost productivity

• $23T GDP

Not even a decimal point on a decimal point and they're still complaining

I think we need to start giving wedgies and noogies to data nerds who generate statistics like this. It's a giod stepping off point to get us to the Butlerian Jihad.

I manage a team of 5 people. I told them all not to come in so they could go see the eclipse. I told them not to take vacation and just bill it as normal hours. Three listened to me. One took a half day. One just went and worked...

Where does that figure even come from?

Please tell me this isn't real

Lmao what is $700 million to the world's largest GDP. Mfing Norfolk Southern just paid out $600 million to East Palestine residents for gasing their town.

I don’t believe anything NBC says about anything anymore

Fuck NBC

I'm tired

What about all the eclipse sunglasses sales?

Hey, at least they're not blaming us for the loss entirely this time!

opinions like this are gonna cost a lot more

Seriously, was it not the employers' decisions to shut down for that? Guarantee you if people just walked out on their own, heads would roll

NBC News, how much did you get for this article?

Is this real??

Fucking Spacer’s Choice I swear on the law.

This is going to be an unpopular note but . . .

IMO NBC News is right, and the commenter is being histrionic.

Like it or not, but we live in a society that uses money (this is not a strictly capitalist thing). If you recall your microeconomics class you might remember that currency is a unit of measurement (like Celsius or inches). The original story is making a point about how disruptive the eclipse was to our "normal" lives. What other universal way is there to measure changes like that? Utils?

NBC (headline) didn't say it cost $700M and it was bad. Nor did it say it cost $700M and it was good.

The tone of the article probably went where we think it went.

And yet no one can say shit about Juneteenth