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Another use of "fungible" in a way I can accept:
The issue of corporate downsizing has provided many examples of the shallowness of the media. Typical was a seven-part series in the New York Times in March 1996 entitled "The Downsizing of America. " The articles focused almost exclusively on the displacement and adjustment of workers, but said little about the benefits to consumers and other workers. This passage in the first article is about all the reporter had to say about that: "Some contend that through these adjustments American companies will recapture their past dominance in world markets, and once again be in a position to deliver higher income to most workers.
Others predict that creating such fungible workforces will leave businesses with dispirited and disloyal employees who will be less productive. And many economists and chief executives think the job shuffling may be a permanent fixture, always with us, as if the nation had caught a chronic, rasping cough."
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