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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.
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That’s peak ignorance. Plenty of countries with universal heathcare have a thriving private medical insurance industry. The thing is they cannot force the scam level prices they do in the US, because private insurance is a ‘nice to have’ instead of a ‘must have’ thing.
We even have it here. Medicare/aid supplemental insurance is a massive market.
This whole piece: "But then I would make less money!!"
They do, and the article talks about that
You did read the article before forming an opinion about it right? Right???