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This is a part whereEurope, a union heavy culture, has the US solidly beaten.
Paid sick leave
Limited and paid overtime
Regulated mandatory (compensated)vacation days
Maternity/Paternity leave
Safety regulation
Protective measures against wanton firing
Wage protection
A social security system to mitigate unemployment

And if any authority or employer try to screw over its workforce, unions will ive those a hard time.

For the US, this is a point where Trump will need to show that he trully is a champion for the blue collared people.

>>14847
Hopefully the smashing of immigration will turn labor into move of a seller's market. The current lot is pretty horrible.

>>14847

This image is confusing.

>>14849
For real

>>14847
I've kind of given up. Americans are so extremist and blind when it comes to capitalism that we hate anything whatsoever that will hurt any big businesses. In the U.S., coming out in support of labor union strikes or against employee sexual harassment by managers... really anything that's viewed as "socialist", "Marxist", and/or "communist" gets you destroyed in our political system.

If Elon Musk and Donald Trump's parallel success proves anything, it's that there's nobody Americans as a whole hate more than working class poor people. We refuse to let them have sick leave even when they're doing terribly. We refuse to let them take care of their infant children. We refuse to stop their wages from being stolen by overtime related shenanigans. And it goes on and on. Americans treat working class poor people with the same bigoted disdain that the Roman Empire treated barbarian peasants.

We're not yet an oligarchy in which the wealthy just rule over everybody else as god-like barons, viscounts, lords, etc like the old Chinese or Russian monarchies. Not yet. We're getting there.

>>14847

It's not even working class poor people. For example, I could have been an engineer, but I could see that even that wasn't worth it. Work a meaningless job for longer per day than when you went to school and with less vacation time while having no friends or ability to make them? No, thank you, sirs.

>>14896
"You weren't born to wealthy parents? Eat shit."

- the United States of America, summarized in two sentences

The amazing thing is that we like this. We need this. We support this.

We're the ones that go on and on about how incredibly handsome and devastatingly smart Elon Musk is. We're the ones that vote to kill labor unions. We're the ones that abandon public institutions such as libraries, schools, and so on. We're the ones that make sure that any public figure who advocates for something like minimum wage hikes gets demonized. We're the ones who foam at the mouth at how badly we love AI generated anything. And it goes on.

We're getting what we want. Good and hard. We're getting it.