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queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

"Unlike the Europours, we have so much money! We get paid more!"

No healthcare if not working
Rarely paid time off
Less holidays
Less workers rights
Most states don’t allow time off for voting
Tax dollars go more to bombing people than education of the future workforces
No major way of sending donations to political groups
Taxes are done inefficiently on purpose to enable companies to get money from doing your yearly legal requirements as a citizen
Still tested for drugs on your private time
Longer commutes other nations
Commutes are often paid by the worker, not the company
Commutes are in cars because public infrastructure doesn’t allow most workers to get to work on time or doesn’t have the last mile covered.
Cars that cost money to just exist, let alone actually use.
Commutes and needing to eat food take time away from the 16 hours “free” from work, meaning people have to cut on sleep or other important self regulations

I feel so fucking free you guys man we have it good.

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CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Oh, don’t worry, most European countries are on their way to become just as shitty as the US.

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djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s mostly just Americans lying to ourselves because we happened to get a bad roll on where we got born.

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pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Unemployment insurance payouts are at or below poverty level at best, short in duration (normally 12-24 weeks at most) despite complete wildcard on how long finding a job may take, and aggressively restricted or even denied in many states(remember Republican controlled states refused free federal funding to bolster their unemployment payouts because they wanted people back working during a global pandemic without a vaccine at that point.

Unions and organizing and employees thinking of organizing are aggressively and illegally attacked, discriminated and retaliated against while the enforcement mechanisms to hold powerful companies to law are so underfunded the laws nearly don’t exist

OSHA, FLSA and other cornerstone pieces of workplace law are so routinely broken and have been by so long and enforcement so underfunded and penalties so trivial the laws don’t exist in practice. Injuries at work, minimum wage, overtime are so commonly violated, suing through the courts has been the only recourse for employees. With the court system now captured, even that menial disincentive is gone for companies to comply.

Companies systematically underpay and are able to collude on wages thanks to market salary tools to suppress wages. Switching companies is the only way to get a raise.
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