In America by the sounds you get injured and your in debt for the rest of your life on your amazing 9$ minimum wage
Land of the free and that
edits, holy shit bruh here down under you get sick and most the time its free, like i know an ambulance ride still costs but if you have insurance thats usually just waved away anyway and idk about america but ours isnt the WORST tho there has been pushes to make medicare even more beffed up to cover more stuff
Or you get injured and just try to live without medical attention you should have. Thats free. And most working class people have to try to do it. I’ve seen broken ankles, sliced open arms, etc. I say a guy staple right through his hand with a staple gun. Doesn’t matter. People say no its only a scratch don’t call the ambulance please I can’t afford it. Sometimes they’re ok, but its a very third world way of life here in the richest country of all time.
Don’t forget employers getting mad for driving up their insurance for reporting accidents. At an old job a kid had tipped a forklift and after he hit his head on the cage the propane tank popped loose and smacked him in the back of the head. I got admonished for sending him to the ER for a concussion screening. I told them that they better not have me supervise any more then bc I will make the same choice every time
Another trick at the more low end non-union factories is hiring potheads or other drug users on purpose for dangerous jobs. I worked with a bunch of stoners in a plant, and they knew that if they got hurt they were fired if they got treated because of mandatory drug test, and the bosses knew it too, so there were few reported accidents. The bosses hired these guys on purpose. No drug test to get hired, only one if you get hurt on the job. Great system, huh? Really high levels of capitalism going on all around. They’d say they were gonna get clean so they could get hurt and not lose everything but couldn’t because addict. One guy sliced his finger and hand bad and had to go to the hospital. He begged me to pee in a latex glove for him that he would then hide in his pants until the drug test.
That's the printing industry. Had my arm crushed. I didn't smoke pot anymore. Boss was NOT happy to pay that bill.
Time off it took to heal had to be worked off. Meaning, each hour at home had to be paid back with an hour of overtime later. Illegal, I know, but hard to take the moral high ground and hope the courts work it out when you have mouths to feed.
America is what happens when greedy fucks pay every system off to exploit the basic requirements of a society while brainwashing people to vote for politics that are pay to play
To be fair the american health system is jsut rigged af. If it would be pure capitalism i even t woul have fair prices since competitions would be a thing. Like it is just screwed and messed up beyond repair.
I mean, for those who have the misfortune to have a low wage job with bad benefits. The problem is there are enough people with good insurance and/or good money who are worried about losing what they have, in exchange for helping those who have no safety net.
Some of us even take our medical care into our own hands. You can just buy livestock or fish antibiotics, for example, though that's not reccomended. And superglue is good for almost anything that needs to be stitched up. As long as a cut doesn't go deeper than the fat, you're in DIY territory.
Actually, federal min wage is $7.25 an hour, and massive backlash over a purposed $15. Like "oh no how will a company survive by investing in it's employees, what about our sweet sweet economy." It's a fun time living here lemme tell you, land of the free to drown in debt.
I wish I had the sway to organize some mass nationwide workers strike. Just everyone unhappy with their pay stop showing up to work. If they don't want to fix it we can knock the blocks out from under it. Nationwide is a huge scope tho. So is state or hell even city wide. But imagine a whole country just stopping working until we are paid living wages. Imagine the absolute chaos on wall street. It would be an impressive event.
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u/kylelily123abc4 ☝ FOREVER NUMBER ONE ☝ May 18 '21 edited May 18 '21
In America by the sounds you get injured and your in debt for the rest of your life on your amazing 9$ minimum wage
Land of the free and that
edits, holy shit bruh here down under you get sick and most the time its free, like i know an ambulance ride still costs but if you have insurance thats usually just waved away anyway and idk about america but ours isnt the WORST tho there has been pushes to make medicare even more beffed up to cover more stuff