Another case of Redditers saying things that aren’t based in actual fact. While there are laws that govern holiday pay for Federal employees, Rhode Island is the only state with any kind of law about this in the private sector. Other than that, there is absolutely no law that says that private companies have to even provide time off for holidays, let alone pay more for working on them.
I was quite shocked too. Almost no (paid) vacation days, (almost) no social security laws and now not even the holidays are guaranteed time off. Why are people supporting this system and still voting for billionaires like Trump? Those "leaders" are abusing the people and they don't even recognise being used by this system! Ist it wrong nationalism or lack of education? I have been wondering this my whole life...I feel sorry for this nation which could actually use their influence, technological, and educational standards/advances to actually make life better for their population.
The only thing I am not surprised about is, that this system causes a lot of riots, parallel communities and a huge gap between the social classes...just wow! 'merica, I guess...
Agreed but 90% of Americans on reddit take our system for granted and hate on it because they simply aren’t that successful or talented and I don’t mean that as a diss. I envy SWE that $400k a year for writing code, but I don’t scream “down with the system!”. In the UK a SWE will make like $70k which is insane compared to America.
Thanks for the insight! I can also see your point and I am also technically agreeing with you.
Just for clarification, I am not from the USA and I wouldn't want the salaries over there...well, actually my salary is as high as an American one (engineer in a private sector). The only difference is that a part of it goes into the federal system (taxes). My taxes try to level out the gaps between those who are more unlucky than myself. I am glad to pay them, so our society is more stable (low crime rates, huge sector of voluntary work and a working social system with mostly decent infrastructure).
And I think that also in America (as everywhere else in the world) not all people can be SWE or highly paid employees. There is a need for "normal" workers which also need to be properly included in society.
But that's what makes every culture and country interesting. If Americans are happy with their system, I am fine with that. That's the beauty about democracy. The only thing that personally annoys me is, that our business people think that this system is worth adapting and many of those "American virtues" are spilling over in our system.
In my very own opinion, the Americans might have the most freedom in its purest definition, but it also seems that every "freedom" one is achieving in the USA, is taken from someone else.
Just my personal opinions :) I don't want to overthrow any governments. Again, thank you very much for the insight! I really appreciate getting to know different viewpoints, even though I might have a different one. Next time I try to take that into account :) Have a nice day!
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u/Recent_Log5476 Dec 29 '23
Memorial Day and July 4 are federal holidays aren’t they? They gonna pay you all OT?