Because they will get fired if they stop working. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/us/shutdown-air-traffic-controllers Don't we have a word for this kind of labor arrangement?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Why does the tsa?

I hope that airport managers and airlines are paying them cash under the table. This job seems way too important to be left to the feds. It should be privatized.

I fear the shutdown might only end after a horrible catastrophe

It should be privatized. But it can’t be bc the only ppl with money are the government. I was shocked to learn 1/8 ppl is on SNAP. We are beginning to see that many businesses are on the corporate version of SNAP.

like every mass scale coordination problem, nobody gives a fuck until the blood starts flowing and then everybody is real concerned all of a sudden

Hello

It can't be privatized because of federal regulations. They enforce their own monopoly over air travel and then fail to do the job that they won't let anyone else do under threat of violence. 🤡🌎

The state in a nutshell.

The big airport operators could just tell the FAA's air traffic control personnel "you work for us now"; increase plane landing fees by whatever it takes to cover their salaries; and tell the FAA to fuck off. Just like they will have to do on the day the Union ends.

> tell the FAA to fuck off. say goodbye to your airport not a snowball's chance in hell this happens It will take a massive breakdown in the social order and a very significant and publicly humiliating degradation in the power of the federal government before private industry begins to take responsibility. They have been trained for a century to obey their federal overlords under threat of violence. That won't change overnight. It will take a revolution.