There is a 3rd type: people desperate for work / experience who are simply taking the best paying job they can find. It is actually the most common type of working in the US.

Also, when you are raised with abuse then it is hard to recognize abuse.

Unfortunately, we live in a post-truth society where the vast majority of people have traded the pursuit of truth for the comfort of confirmation bias.

And the last 6 months have shown us that the stock market is mostly just vibes and manipulation rather than being grounded in facts and reality.

I am just mad that free trade is only allowed when it benefits the rich, but the moment the Chinese produce a very affordable EV that would help millions of Americans while helping us fight climate change, suddenly we aren’t allowed to buy it because our neo-feudal oligarchs can’t take a cut for themselves…

Free trade is a farce and our entire system is rotten.

The root failure of our political systems is allowing money to buy political representation. Once money can buy political influence then the system will inevitably be hijacked and corrupted to serve money over people

Corporations did this, and everyone just went with it.

Not true, a socialist movement was on the rise in the US but then the government started abducting and arresting anyone who had any ties to socialism from Truman to McCarthy.

The government has been very clear that any real threat to zombie consumerism/ capitalism will quickly be snuffed out through state sanctioned violence.

Also, the US bombed the fuck out of every country that tried to resist being taken over by western corporations. “The Jakarta Method” is a very interesting read on the untaught atrocities of the US government that forced the world down the path it went down.

As a kid, I thought of the natives as being simple and child like… But now I see western expansion into NA as being like the orcs tearing down trees from the Two Towers.

They have Gold Sickness which is a cancer of the soul.

English is such a dumb fucking language. I really hope we reform it some day to reduce the time future generations waste learning all the stupid exceptions to every single rule

Remember when Fox News called workers “dogs” that need to be starved to make us obedient? Never forget, never forgive

A yank tank / wank tank is any SUV or pickup that is larger than the tanks we used to beat the Nazis (not joking)

God I hate to use this word but it’s the only one that works… cucked.

Owned is a great word for this. Nearly all our news outlets are owned by billionaires which leaves journalists next to zero ownership over what they are allowed to write and how they are allowed to frame things.

Capitalism is bad at pricing in externalities. It’s pretty good at using price signals to allocate finite resources to more productive uses.

Markets do not equal capitalism. You can have the efficiencies of free markets (worker owned co-ops which are market socialist) without the all consuming greed of capitalism.

If so, then oaths clearly aren’t enough. We need to empower doctors to have more ownership over medical decisions.

This goes back to the heart of the issue of capitalism vs socialism: the people who have the actual expertise to do the actual work need to share in ownership over their work so that the work gets done properly. Doctors should be at the helm of the healthcare industry just like engineers should be at the helm of Boeing.

We have capitalism and public health care im the EU.

The EU has socialist / non-capitalist parties that have fought tooth and nail for socialized medicine and labor protections. The US doesn’t have non-capitalist parties to fight for the working class.

So in other words, the US only has capitalism and our government only represents the interests of capital (our government doesn’t do anything unless capitalists are allowed to get their hands in it to funnel public funds into private pockets)

Agreed. The US’s entire political system is broken beyond repair (money directly buying political representation, hyper polarization from our two party system) and evil beyond redemption (funding genocide, bombing other countries, and allowing corpos to kill Americans for profit)

I’ve worked in a few US hospitals (in the lab, but we worked closely with nurses and doctors) and by far the biggest danger I observed (other than insurance practicing medicine without a license) was nurses and doctors making mistakes due to sleep deprivation. Doctors and nurses will work 14 hours, get called in to the ER multiple times throughout the night, and then try to work another 12 hour shift without sleep.

Another huge risk factor was overworking nurses by giving them too many patients to care for. Nurses need patient caps of 5 or 6 because each additional patient increases the risk of someone dying by 20%

FMLA is unpaid. You only get paid to miss work if you use your vacation time or if you had paid for short term disability insurance, otherwise you are fucked. I know a woman who was forced to return to work 6 weeks after giving birth because her leave was unpaid and she couldn’t afford to take any more unpaid leave

Sadly, in the US, we can’t do that because NIMBYs tie everything up in the courts until projects go bankrupt and get abandoned.

Maybe in Europe, but in the US At-will employment means that you can be fired at any moment without cause, without warning and without severance.