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DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That was a typo, it’s actually the Land of the Fee

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Welcome to the United Snakes. Land of the thief, home of the slave

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• BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Land of the free*

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  • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    *Terms and conditions may apply

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    • BatrickPateman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      *While supply lasts.

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      • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        *Offer valid only between Saturday 11:59:59.999999pm and Sunday 12:00:00am.

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Freedom is when nazis can freely beat you on the street and cops do nothing. FREEDOM, BABY! 🦅🇺🇸

  (Fun fact, I got arrested when I defended myself against a bully in school, ACAB)

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• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s a marketing ploy. Not an actual policy.

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• Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  To be fair, having the government mandate how much time you get off for working 40 hours a week is kind of just codifying the indentured servitude you’re under.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wow. I’ve seen some shit takes around here, but that one is just outta pocket, you’re gonna have to explain that one

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    • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      To be fair, I’m not defending having to beg your boss for time off.

      In our world we have a simple choice: work for whoever will hire you, or starve and die on the streets. Barring random and uncontrollable acts of charity or the extremely fortunate situation in which you work for yourself.

      Now we could go back and forth on where on the spectrum of “you would be working all day miserably farming if it weren’t for your job” and “you should feel blessed to die of black lung in the coal mines cause at least you got to work” we both lie. But, in a society where the majority of work involves “work or die”, our promises to our bosses are very short periods of indentured servitude in a very hyperbolic sense.

      Sure, you can quit at any time only to find another job or be taken to jail (we could go into the criminalization of homelessness), but for most people, you’re working for life.

      So to say that the government (or employment contract) mandating that you’re owed days of vacation is an expression of freedom is a far cry from my definition of freedom.

      I was certainly being glib and hyperbolic tho

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    • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      On the same take, we used to get 15min breaks every 2 or 3 hours. Then the government wrote laws that said we had to get at least 10min breaks every 4 hours. So now we get less because you will only ever get the minimum.

      We get less breaks and they have to be shorter than what the average was before.

      I’m not against labor laws, but I’ve been working nearly four decades now and I’m still getting bent over every opportunity.

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  • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Watch out guys, we have a Temporarily Embarrased Billionare™ in the comment section.

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What are you talking about? If the government didn’t require paid leave, you might get … none of it! So the mandate actually makes you … checks notes … less controlled.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s only the minimum of paid time off though, and how many hours of a week you work is determined between you and your employee in the form of a contract. If you think that this is indentured servitude, to the state which provides you with taxes and services, then I really don’t know on which planet and or reality you live in.

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• bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Some people do but as I said in another comment, I’m informing them not asking.

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