This should be no.1!

Yeah people don’t deserve to die because rich people want more money

"But I don't wanna pay for other people!" - then you don't get to retire ^-^

He preditced SVB crisis?

I have no problem when people are successful, the problem I have is when they refuse to acknowledge they did not get there alone. Demanding old age insurance and pension is a drain on them when they are only taxed on the 1st 160k of income(USA). You had a LOT of help...show it!

I'm French. Last month, I've seen my doctor 2 times for asthma and a genetic disease, got an x-ray and a irm, 10 different meds. Two of my kids got the flu. Our medical bill : 0€.

I feel like more and more people becoming happy/happier increases my chance of being happy. That's my selfish reason for wanting most people to be happy.

Yeah, the ones we call heroes are being sent to suffer or die. Hero is NOT a desirable outcome in life.

You don't work to live, you live to work. And that's a stressful life to have.

Many people in Europe learn more than one language because they live in close proximity to another country. Sometimes two languages are spoken in the same country, like Belgium.

BUT stay away from the moronic MTG-types. Elect smart, capable people who possess true leadership qualities, grew up with working class parents, and who actually understand and are in touch with, REAL life.

So, the problem is the system or the people ?

That just goes to show...99% of employers really don't care no matter how many times they call you "family".

If a modern newspaper wrote about this, it would immediately be accused of being "woke" and "pushing agendas".

Great work! Way to blaze a trail.

Also, the US of that time was still capitalist. Much of Europe operates at the capitalist end of the cap-comm scale. The problem is *deregulated* capitalism. It's greed. It's failing to hold people to account. It's failing to be a society.

You can also help by shutting down for profit privately owned prisons. I mean it takes an Einstein to figure out where their self interest and dream of ever increasing profits leads?.....come on, get real.

WAIT DNA WHAT IN UR LOCKERS?

And have been since Reagan. That’s over FORTY f*****g years—-the entirety of my most productive young working adult life. Elon, you entitled, out of touch, f*****g arrogant little s**t, my heart’s just pumping purple p**s for you.

Great burn from a great game designer!

He was also going senile and let Nancy and an astrologer run the game

I've worked in restaurants in California, Nevada, and Florida. In those states, you have to pay $15 every few years for ServSafe certification to work with food. It's a stupid online course that "teaches" ridiculously common sense things about food safety. All of that money goes to the National Restaurant Association, who owns the program. They then use that money to lobby Congress AGAINST raising the tipped minimum wage or replacing tipping with profit-share incentives.

yeah this is the thing that probably pi**es people off the most, the same sanctimonious hypocrites that drone on about market forces and the evils of socialism are the FIRST to get a handout when their business has a quiet month.

This should be higher.

That's the kind of work people only notice when it is not done. Strikes are the only way to show it.

A sidenote; in The Netherlands there's short-term illness and long-term illness. Short-term is "I've got the flu so I'm calling in sick", during which most employers will pay you 100%. Most workplaces don't have official sick-days, but some do (often this is the result of the employer feeling that people are misusing the freedom of calling in sick at any moment). Long-term illness is an illness that will debilitate you to an extent that you can't do your job anymore, or maybe not to the fullest extent. Then you go see a company doctor, who will assess the trajectory for the coming period (therapy, part-time leave, whatever may be necessary to get you back on track). An employer is obligated to pay your salary for 2 years max, often 70% of your previous salary. There's also financial aid for which you can apply during this time.

That would be a few hundred to a few thousand dollars with insurance (depending on the plan and other issues you've had in same calendar year), or multiple thousands without insurance. Add in an ambulance ride or overnight stay, it's easily into tens of thousands and upward.

Need more drunk people than educated ones?

Absolutely especially about the weed 👏👏👏

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I am a recent cancer survivor and my husband was able to care for me due to leave time being donated into a pool. If he had to work, I would have needed to manage horrendous chemotherapy complications alone while caring for a 7 year old during the the early months of the pandemic. Ridiculous.

And someone has to say this even after the pandemic we witnessed?

It's extortion

It is misdirection, so we don't see the real crimes being committed behind our back. The left wing and the right wing, are on the same bird.

America is three rich guys in a trenchcoat pretending to be a country.

I've seen this picture so many times in geography

Robert Reich for president!

The people have been conditioned since Nixon that this is how they're supposed to live by the rich.

Yes this s**t hole country does. But dont discredit what this kid did.

I feel you, girl. The feeling of paying double in rent because the bank doesn't think you could pay half of it for a mortgage. With stable and decent paying jobs even.

Well...please explain WHY a living wage for every job would not be healthy for society.

It’s because they’re playing a zero sum game. In their selfish, warped, and corrupted little minds, they think that any tiny crumb of the pie that someone else works hard, and scrimps and saves to get is a crumb ripped from their own greedy mouths. Even though it’s a big enough pie for everyone to have a satisfying slice of, they’ll never be satisfied with anything but taking and hoarding the WHOLE damned pie for themselves.

Capitalism minus competition is a tyrannical dictatorship.

In France, votes are counted in front of people. Everybody can come and see.

Late Boomer here (1960). I wanted all those things too when I was your age. Only, back then, I was always the only one at work who asked to have it. It made me very unpopular, which made my work life even worse because of retaliation, and I ended up having to job hop more than I planned to. Every time I got a new job, I went into it hoping it would be different this time and I would be there until I retired. But all companies were pretty much the same sweatshop as the rest, especially back then. So you’re not the first to want it, but you’re the first to have a majority, instead of one lone outlier like me, very loudly demanding it. Don’t back down, because you’re actually getting the ball rolling. There’s resistance, yes. There always will be. But keep putting the pressure on the bastards, plus pressure on politicians funding labor boards and writing labor legislation, and they’ll eventually have to cave to keep their companies fully staffed and running. The irony is that the CEOs and other suits in the executive offices, will have the revelation that paying livable salaries won’t break their banks. In fact, it will most likely increase their sales, as people will have more money to buy their f*****g products. Just make sure they don’t decide to tip the balance back their way by raising prices sky high (like they doing now, but the Treasury guys do seem to get it), and gouging people out of that extra cash. We’re all counting on you.

You know what I think they can do with their money? Roll it up, real tight, and shove it up their entitled asses. If they won’t, I’ll be more than happy to buy a pair of those long rubber gloves veterinarians use to shove their arms up cows’ and horses’ asses, and do that job for them. Anyone want to help?

Russia isn't a civilized country either.

I’m 62. The basic school hot lunch,. that the lunch ladies in the cafeteria cooked and served, was always free, the entire time I was in public school. If you wanted extras, then you paid for them. THAT’S how it should still be! Oh, but I know the elite private school graduate m***********s in the GOP have worked hard since Reagan to chip away at school funding for the last 40 years. They could give a fat rat’s a*s if a school age child’s growth and brain development is stunted from starvation, just because their family is constantly struggling financially and can’t afford to pay for their kid to have a free hot lunch. They’ll blame the impoverished parents, making the minimum wage they have fought to keep from being raised since the 1990s, and not themselves. As always. Of course. Their consciences will always be clear, because they have NO consciences.