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At least they are legally employing people, in other countries in Southern Europe people work an illegal amount of time but as long as the official contract declares a lower amount of hours it’s fine (neither retirements funds nor taxes nor insurance are paid for the extra time, obviously).

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4 points

Pure profit

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29 points

Implying Greece doesn’t also do this.

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It’s like they’re describing Greece… Though things may be looking better as time goes along in regards to some of this.

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4 points

Our PIGS brothers ❤️❤️❤️

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93 points

Greek employers cannot find the staff they need. Greek coastguard pushes migrants off boats into the sea.

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Flawed. What jobs are Greece lacking workers for? Can the said migrants fill those roles while simultaneously getting integrated into the societal norms and customs?

If yes. Cool.

If no. Not a solution.

I don’t agree to the pushing people into the sea. But one problem is not the solution to a different one.

Quota migrants are the way to go. Human trafficking is bad.

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Migrants don’t join unions. Which make them way cheaper. A very cool way for the owning class to exploit the workers and bypass any union/organized labour restriction.

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13 points

Those migrants aren’t staying in Greece, they want to go somewhere with an actual economy

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8 points

If that were the case, why would the Greek coastguard give a shit?

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They can cause issues while transiting through and they are required to give a shit because they’re part of the EU’s outer border control. And they might have fears of some of the migrants staying. I could imagine someone being in the coastguard cares about securing the border too even if there were none of the above issues.

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3 points

Because of European asylum rules. Those migrants have to be processed in their country of entry.

Also, because they are racist fucks, who are paid to believe that Greece is being invaded.

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6 points

Maybe the cruelty is the point?

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17 points

in my shithole country we have %30 unemployment and 6-day work week. Also it’s all slave wages regardless of your degree or experience. It’s a corrupt shithole system that enables itself to keep on staying shit by exploiting poor people and getting the rich richer.

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7 points

Um, you’re describing Greece plus or minus some unemployment percentage points.

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13 points

Greek companies wonder why “nobody wants to work anymore.”

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4 points

This is a false dichotomy. Employers can’t find the staff they need at the wages they are willing to pay. Immigrants are the scapegoat, not the solution.

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1 point

For employers it can also be a solution, since you can pay them whatever and trust that they can’t go to the authorities about it or won’t join unions and so on

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1 point

That’s the point. Obviously having an ever expanding underclass that can be exploited with no risk is preferable to paying workers more.

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But they’ll take all of our incredibly desirable jobs!

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I don’t know if it’s a good thing that all undesirable and underpaid jobs are taken or given to a class of people who are deemed cheap or undesirable

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28 points

neoliberalism in its essence

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144 points

Greece re-introduces the 6 day work week… It used to be the standard. Y’know, in the 18th fucking century

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36 points

And the 19th, and a large part of the 20th too

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14 points

Also, part of the 21st…

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4 points

I’m 50 and I’ve worked 6-day weeks probably 90% of my working life which started at 14. Even before that, it’s not like you actually got the whole weekend off. I was an honors student, there was always tons of homework.

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9 points

Can they don’t

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