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[–] Scotcheggs 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Muricans are overwhelmingly against what serves their best interests because they are under the belief they are only temporally unsuccessful and will one day become some fat cat multi millionare CEO reaping the rewards of what they believe are people lower than them. Meanwhile they are living in a trailer park, crumbling grim suburb or shitty apartment thst takes 60% of their salary working 12 hour shifts, paying 30% of their income in taxes for hardly more than minimum wage without any health care, paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid maternatiy leave, guaranteed emplyee contract so they won't be fired at any moment for arbitrary reasons, or pension and will vote for the best interests of abusive corporations that want to fuck them in the ass and call them Sally rather than for their own best interests. It's very common there for some reason.
I lived in Murica and now in a country that fought for labour laws before America existed and my life is really cushy and safeguarded compared to Murica. I get all those things I mentioned and I'm just an average guy. To get an employee contract where you can't be fired without notice, 1 month paid holidays. Paid sick leave, pension etc in murica you need to be a harvard graduate working a top level position in some 1% forbes top 10 company.
Average people there have it really poorly and they go against what would improve their overall life because they are deluded and naive to think that the American dream is anything but just a dream and that they are better than they really are and just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and prey to Jesus and then they will live in bliss when in reality their lives are awful and they enjoy getting buttfucked by their employers (cliche and run on sentence as I am drunk and on a 1 week paid holiday now but it's true).
[–] not_shadowbanned_yet ago
i'm not an american though.
[–] not_shadowbanned_yet ago
you claim to be against abuse and for discussion.
your support of labour unions proves this to be a lie.
[–] Scotcheggs ago (edited ago)
Can you explain why in America labour unions are bad? I am not an American but I do know the workers standards are lower there even if they are not in a union. I worked in America for a bit with an older former SAS British guy acting as a manager to the company I worked with and he said that most Americans would be fired in Britain if they had the same laziness whinging and poor ambition as American workers and yet in Britain they have better worker rights already without having any union. Is it just a fear that lazy American workers will be even more unproductive? I can understand it in that case but perhaps they have low ambition and productivity because their lives suck? I get a month paid holidays per year, free health care, a pension my employer contributes 70% into, paid paternaty leave if I have a child. Paid sick leave. Guaranteed contract so I cannot be fired without at least 4 weeks notice. I only pay 20% tax and maybe 30% goes to rent living in a major city and the rest I have as free cash. I can afford most what I want with a middle of the road normal job and my life is pretty safeguarded and easy. I am productive and work hard the 35 hours I work per week. Most Americans only wish they could have that yet here that is entirely normal and interwoven with the law here. The reason we got it is because in the 1700s and 1800s workers revolted and wanted better. People do a good job for the work they put in because they are appreciative of their rights.