Throughout history wealthy people have always owned all media outlets and used them as their own private propaganda outlets.
I suppose you might believe in the “free” press or the “independent” media. Well those are just concepts and not reality.
I would suggest watching Good Night, and Good Luck to start to see modern journalism for what it is.
What they don’t tell you about treatment is that it often takes several tries. You friend may have many more struggles in the future. All you can do is offer your unconditional support and of course protect yourself from their behavior.
If you used Gnome back in the day you know there was a lot of that configurability built in. Then one day the developer decided to start taking it away. Slowly but surely all the ability to configure Gnome was removed. If you experienced this arc like I did you were left scratching your head.
Yes KDE was always more configurable, but removing what configurability Gnome did have made it less useful. For power users this is a big deal. It is like a company taking away all your features and thinking you are going to like it.
Fox is a hell of a drug.
For real, he could live cam their miserable existence and say, “See how these minorities suffer for American profits!”
Then the fireworks go off and an eagle screams. The audience cheers!
Yes, I definitely used your words against you unfairly to prove how silly your original premise is. You have struggled like anyone else to get where you are although, let’s be frank, you are clearly privileged.
I don’t mean that in a rude way either, just that you probably have marketable skills with a good job history and perhaps even an education to boot.
Think about it this way. If the government guaranteed us all a good amount of vacation time you would be free to seek other better compensating employers without fear of losing that benefit.
I know healthcare in the US is also a big factor. I personally know many people who chose not to leave their job for fear of losing their coverage. I know people who had cancer but would not stop working because they could not afford to lose their coverage.
There are problems and they are very bad. So I guess I agree with you now. We shouldn’t be shitting on things pointlessly. We should be having real conversations about the issues we face.
I appreciate you don’t like shitting on things pointlessly. I am not sure your unique personal experience (that every US employer you have had has given you six weeks paid) should discount the reality the majority of US workers face
Without laws to protect workers their rights will always be violated. What you are trying to get at is what if some benevolent entity chooses to actually care for their workers like Gabe does.
This does happen but it doesn’t stop the fact that another employer purposely underpays their employee by giving them a salary but expecting them to work additional overtime without compensation.
I bring up this example because recently the US made a rule that employers did have to pay overtime to a salaried employee which was then struck down by a judge.
Ultimately the struggle is real. US workers are some of the most productive in the world but we are not getting compensated fairly for it.
We cannot rely on goodwill at this point. Looking back on history we can see we have struggled to get the rights we already have. We must demand better to lift our fellow citizens up.
So while you don’t like shitting on things for no reason others see the reason. They aren’t getting 6 weeks and 400k. Hell they aren’t even getting 12 days and their pay makes them eligible for public assistance.
Meanwhile their company makes record profits and I pay for their food stamps through taxes. I am subsidizing employers who choose not to pay their workers what they are worth because they don’t have to.
I have worked my entire life and I have always given it my all. I have never got benefits close to most in modern Europe even though I work longer hours and I am more productive.
So sure, there are some good employers but we can’t all be making 400k a year working at Valve. For every good employer there are thousands of shitty ones.
Without the laws and protection from the government employers will always take advantage of their workers. The system is flawed because of the inherent power imbalance and everyone seems to see it but you. Once again. What don’t you “get”?
Nearly 30% of Europeans took more than 25 vacation days, while only 6% of Americans took that much time off according to a survey of 1,228 employees.
While the U.S. federal government doesn’t require companies to provide paid vacation to employees, they typically offer between 5 and 15 days of PTO per year.
In Portugal, workers receive at least 22 days, while those in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden get, at minimum, 25. And those living in Estonia get a whopping 28. “Employees in full-time employment on a 40-hour week are entitled to 192 hours of vacation leave per year,”
What don’t you “get”?
The US spends the least out of just about every country for public media.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/01/do-countries-with-better-funded-public-media-also-have-healthier-democracies-of-course-they-do/
I think your disinterest in the history of media ownership will probably prevent you from understanding what is happening now. Trying to understand what is happening without context of the past is not a good strategy.