“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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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).
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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
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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.
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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.