Thursday, December 06, 2007

Unintended consequences 2

Say that 750 people leave the Lab in the next month or so.

Where do these people live?
What happens to the housing market?
How many other people, deciding that they have a poor career path at LANL, leave?
Who would choose to work at LANL if they had another choice?
Why would someone, needing to spend ten years after their Ph.D. to master weapons, choose to work at LANL?
If the people laid off try hard to stay in Northern New Mexico for the rest of their lives and people outside Northern New Mexico do not want to come here to work on LANL projects, where does a viable workforce come from (foreigners would come but this raises another set of problems).

There appear to be a huge set of these unintended consequences.

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