Mark Blyth had a good lecture on this and why people vote against the interests.
This one is quite funny. America is beyond basic criticism at this point since it shows that accelerationism can be beat by monthly iPhone contacts and cheap burger-soda combos. Bread and games nationwide in one of the richest nations on earth and certainly the most dominant one.Don't forget paid maternity leave:
Really only gives you 1/2 of the picture though, as the article notes:
It's almost as if we had a generation and a half of bi-partisan support for these kind of policies.The next time someone unironically asks "do you really want the US to become like western Europe" show them this:
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The implicit point in this analysis, and so many others, is that traditional "economic" measures are failing the health and well-being of the American people; it doesn't matter if Americans make slightly more in raw dollar terms if their access to health care, higher education, and a stable retirement is broadly in jeopardy. A better question would be: "Is the median Western European safer, healthier, freer, living a more balanced lifestyle, and at less risk of illness (mental or otherwise), termination, bankruptcy, and preventable death than the median worker in the U.S.?" The answer in almost every case is yes.
I feel people underestimate how much their favored party contributes or just allows this problem to linger and grow.
Sure, Obama can get fucked as well. To me this issue is pretty clear and you're either someone thats going to fix it and actually help the people, or you're going to be someone that does the opposite like both Obama and Trump.
It's not that easy and family and other support networks need to be rebuilt. I know a guy who is doing it, but he has a 5 year plan. It's not something you just get up in leave. Not to mention acquiring work visas and so on.
The next time someone unironically asks "do you really want the US to become like western Europe" show them this:
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Women started entering the workforce in huge numbers. This diluted the labor markets. And then add the trade deals and foreign markets opening up in the 70s and 80s. With such a large labor pool, there wasn't any need to pay people more.
Its pretty good! Its also far from perfect and needs improvement!
Yep this kind of shit has been normalized. This was a much lower-level job, but I worked at a bank for several years (personal banker/call center agent) and through most of that time the bank was in dire financial straits due to some bad choices they'd made. People in other departments kept getting let go, and duties were slowly being shifted to us. We also had more and more sales-oriented goals pushed on us the last couple years, on top of everything else. It was a shit show. The bank finally got some huge capital injection and everything was peachy again. I'll let you guess if we ever saw a single raise or bonus throughout this entire time aside from the (almost)annual 20cent raise to barely keep up with inflation.
Last I checked Dems had control of the government too and didn't change the trajectory of income inequality.
They got rid of 75% of local salespeople and required production staff to make sales under the guise of people would rather buy from us than salespeople. No added compensation at the same time we were making half the commission as they were with no training. Oh and yeah, threats of being fired daily if we did not hit our goals.
There hasn't been Dem in the white house since Carter. When did we have control?
Divide and conquer at it's finest. While the poor are at eachothers throats the rich are laughing on their way to the bank.
it's usually followed by " if you think it's so great there why don't you move there" or something like that
