RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116285239183264441

49 states have 'at will employment' meaning unless you have a union, which is ~not~ 90% of us, we can be fired just for saying we're sick. (yeah, it's wrongful firing - sure sue them. Tell me how rent gets paid while paying for a lawyer?)

The struggle isn't even to explain sick leave is a terrible racket, half (at least) of the US labor force doesn't even have sick leave or use it if we do!

@Kalshann What's interesting is that when companies trust their employees not to just work there for long enough to bunk off for two years and still get paid...they don't.

Not working in a precarious, high-pressure environment makes your staff happier, more productive, and less eager to scam you into paying them for doing nothing. People, in general, want to work.

We've seen the same with the four-day week. Productivity goes up not down! The American business model has everything backwards.

@ApostateEnglishman
Yeah, there's a reason I reference the US version of capitalism as a cult. It's inane and obsessed with worst practices.

UBI, work-from-home, 36 hr weeks, health care for prevention, we ~know~ how to make the world better, and proven it'd be great for everyone and make the bosses more money - and fucking yet... [rolls eyes]

The wealthy in the US want slavery - in one form or another. I've never found anything to refute that in what they do.