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AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The idea of the “right to work” is bizarre to me. I am a USA citizen and it still confuses me. Isn’t our right to freedom from oppression, life, liberty, and happiness? I’m not sure how the right to work gets mixed up in there. I should be able to live happily if I work or not. Call me a commie but a strong social program (including free healthcare, free standardized education, and transit) and universal income would solve many of the issues the USA faces today. That all costs money of course but it doesn’t take an economist to see how much the USA spends on the military, and we are not even in an active war, so I think the budget could probably be finagled a little. Anyway I forgot what I was talking about, and all I’m saying is if the guy at the Wendy’s drive thru is replaced with a tablet for ordering he should still get paid.

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