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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52502297
The american dream is a nightmare.
This is conservatism. Conservatives (including neo-liberals) serve the billionaire class. Conservatives have ALWAYS been the foot-soldiers of the wealthy.
It is conservatives who despise unions and conservatives who violently attack and murder union members for the rich during strikes. It is conservatives who allow the rich to be immune to laws and taxes.
Conservatives are doing this to us. They cannot stop on their own. We must physically, forcibly, violently help them stop. If we do not, they will kill us all.
The boss cannot be defeated until his foot-soldiers are dead.
Wen
I had a colleague who went into a diabetic shock at work. Passed out, due to other related things, his retina disconnected. They had him back in two weeks, and framed him for stealing cash from the register rather than cover the treatment to recover. Gotta love corporate America.
Had another buddy, and three others conveniently murdered the night before a Lyft Union contract was up for negotiation in my home city. Needless to say, negotiations were conveniently cancelled, and the union disbanded in following days, suddenly lacking four of the main officers.
Just saying, if you think you're costing the corporations too much, none of us are, and they'll pay to make sure you don't.
Lhand ov the Fee!
That's happening pretty much everywhere in the corporate.
Heart attacks or people cannot afford to retire?
People not being able to retire, even not able to survive on the income they get. Heart attack is a consequence of lifestyle that people have to live these days. Many people simply don't feel enough, that sense of not being enough and being replaceable often leads to a decline in mental and physical health.
We don’t know anything about these guy. I imagine that he keeps working to afford his lavish lifestyle with a huge home, pool, multiple vehicles and helicopters while doing fundraising events every week.
This is just slavery. Fuck the USA. What a nightmare to live in
had a close friend try to defend 6 sick days a year as "generous"
lmao.
What is wrong with some people? Was he never sick? Does he not know sickness is a real thing? Jeez.
unfortunately i see it way too often in this country, eventually you get deep enough to become unable to reject the absurdity, as it would mean acknowledging your own status as a slave
Makes sense. Cognitive dissonance. Hard to blame as noone really wants to admit he's basically just a slave with no option.
Although there is an option. Emigration. Be abetted treated slave elsewhere. But that probably also won't come to mind if you're already adamant you're in the greatest nation already 😑
Yay Capitalism! /s
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Long- and short-term disability need regulation. Companies cut funding to their own employees at times when it hurts the most while also throwing them to the health insurance vultures.
It sends the message fuck you, find your own way or die.
Why are private companies even in the loop? Where I live, the government pays disability.
Why are private companies even in the loop?
Because they own the politicians.
Murica, the ultra rich making anything related to the welfare of others “communism”
Basically 100 years of social engineering to convince 50% of the country that any that benefits them is evil and wrong
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You don't ask for favors when your life is through
You've got a right to what's coming to you
Your boss gets a pension when he is too old
You helped him retire, you're out in the cold
Too old to work, too old to work
When you're too old to work and you're too young to die
Who will take care of you, how'll you get by
Whеn you're too old to work and you're too young to die?
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Netherlands here:
Yikes.
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Indentured servitude for the ability to exist.
No vitals for 10 minutes doesn't make sense
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Anyone without vitals for 10 minutes would he dead
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They should have still had vitals with a heart attack
If CPR is keeping your blood flowing for 10 mins then you don't have vitals. CPR stops when your vitals comes back or when they pronounce you are dead-dead.
That's not the case.
- people round numbers. In a casual setting 8 minutes and 10 minutes are the same.
- 10 minutes without detectable vital signs is survivable, albeit extremely serious.
- If you have sudden cardiac arrest and get CPR from a random bystander you have a 20% chance of surviving to leave the hospital. The sooner a defibrillator can restart the heart the better.
- I'm not sure why you say they should have still had vitals with a heart attack. Most heart attacks don't leave you with none, but it's not all by any means. Lack of blood flow to the heart can easily cause it to stop beating.
Ultimately though, the part that matters is that the part you found implausible was the medical details, not that someone would go back to work shortly after a severe emergency while still concerned about their own sudden death because they can't afford to recover.
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Has the frog been boiled yet?
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This man has likely been a part of the work force for almost SIXTY YEARS.
still not enough
The Republican plan for us all.
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