It never ceases to amaze me the way Americans are dealt such a shitty hand these days
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stray@pawb.social 1 day agoI can’t recall the details because it’s been too long since I worked in the States, but it was something like if you work more than 30 hours per week the employer has to pay certain benefits. It’s cheaper for them to hire two 20hr workers than one 40hr worker, and then the two employees aren’t seeing any of the benefits they’re supposed to be getting. I assume that loophole is by oligarchical design.
taygaloocat@leminal.space 1 day ago
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Send military help. It took wwii to get rid of (some) of the nazis from power, and it’s looking like it’s going to be the same course of events in america. They’re starting by bullying their neighbors and wanting to take land (greenland, canada, mexico, now venezuela is actually getting attacked), and you wanna bet that we’re going to see a repeat of germany/russia’s agreement to not attack each other and split poland (the eu)?
My personal bet is that everything will kick off because trump decides to froth out enough hatred about china to have a fishing dispute escalate into military actions.
IronBird@lemmy.world 1 day ago
imo, everyone right now left, right, and center are all coping on the idea that things “return to normal” (ie. unsustainable ratfucking) when trump croaks.
i…don’t think this happens, what ends up happening who the fuck knows, but i doubt it’s good. personally, my guess is the people who said violence will be required to remove them require violence to be removed, but i would be happy to be wrong there.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
That shit was true long before Obamacare.
deathbird@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Before Obamacare companies had the option to not provide healthcare at all, and more often their cutoffs when they did was 39 hours. ACA moving that to 30 was an attempt to get around employers hiring two people for part-time rather than 1 full-timer. And then they also made the norm of providing health insurance into a standard requirement.
Well-intentioned, reasonable compromise, modest reform-type stuff, but with raging Republican opposition to anything ever getting better and the inevitable min-maxing of loopholes, it only got us so far. And mail multiple key provisions has been repealed by the Republicans so…
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
While admitting that my recollection is flawed as hell, I remember it being the case that you couldn’t get a full 40 hours, but that you could easily get 30+ hours so long as you didn’t hit 40 enough times to count.
I’m not trying to agree with OOP that the ACA ruined everything, but it is a truly bizarre and flawed alternative to universal healthcare.
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 day ago
For some reason people thought if they used the Republican’s plan for healthcare then republicans would have no choice but to support it.
All that happened is they got a shitty healthcare plan and the Republicana had nowhere to go and nothing to offer as an alternative.
deathbird@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Also it turns out Republicans can oppose anything they’ve previously supported if they want. There’s no magical force that imposes consistency on them.