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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
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sounds like the required benefits are limiting peoples income and companies are just finding way around it. I still don't know why Americans think medical should be tied to employment. Why not remove these required benefits from the employer and find another solution.
Luckily there are multiple functioning health care systems around the world to take inspiration from.
Medi-caid, snap, other benefits that are "Welfare" have very low "max income" mostly less than 20k/year for most states, and they calculate based on your gross income per month, not after adjusted tax income. most people earning that little often arnt living on thier own, or if they do , its usually because they are retire dwith substantial savings, but still need to work.
I think they're doing it because they're afraid Americans are going to dump traditional work and go do work or a craft they actually enjoy whatever that might be. Or it could just be the old puritan mentality cemented in the stupid minds of the average selfish citizen.
There's a lot of reason it's tied to employment, and it's all basically to make sure most Americans are basically poor feudal peasants.
We live in the modern equivalent of a feudal monarchy, and if you're not contributing as a member of the labor class then you won't be taken care of. Simple as that. Laboratores must labor.
And we simply turn our heads and pretend the rest don't exist. Those that don't labor are shunned, and will die off of infection or starvation or due to the elements.
And then we say it's their fault for being lazy.