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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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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.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
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It's not possible to approve all care. Taxpayers will, through representative lawmakers, allot a certain amount of money to healthcare, and within that budget, decisions must be made. The realistic goal is not to have every possible treatment always approved, it's to have a moderately high floor of care that everyone has as a baseline.
If a private insurer approves it, the presumption is of medical necessity. If care is being allocated based on "affordability" rather than "necessity" or "net social benefit" then we're still defining health care as a luxury in some capacity.
"Sorry, we didn't allocate resources to you because your private sector salary/passive income wasn't high enough" is an indication of policy failure in a socialist system.
The "realistic" goal is to provide maximum utility at minimal social cost. Not to provide maximum comfort to the highest status individuals.