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Great Depression: Part Deux (lemmy.world)
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[–] 64 points 1 year ago* (38 children)

Wtf are you guys eating over there.... Jesus christ, I wonder why Americans seem so crazy. Artificial food, artificial media, Artificial work culture...

And two weeks vacation, maybe, on a full year of work... What? And still no money in the wallet at the end of the day?

I watched a video last night about an American guy that was just losing it, and rightly so:

https://youtu.be/awKjusa-JFQ

Watch five minutes of that and be happy if you are European, I guess.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, yeah.....a lot of people here have it very rough. I am lucky in that I work for the federal government and get 10 weeks plus holidays off. A lot of people here do not get that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I had that once, turned out the head of my department was a sociopath though. Never been unhappier at work in my life. I had managers that handled themselves better at a car wash than this lady did at a public library.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Two weeks? If you're middle to upper middle class, sure. If you're lower middle to lower class, you'll get a week, if anything at all, unpaid. Sick? Unpaid. Spouse died? Unpaid. What, give people welfare? Not on my tax dollar, that's communism!

    The US stopped being the land of opportunity two generations ago, and only now people are starting to realize.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    "You can have the funeral in the alley behind the restaurant during lunch. Throw your wife in the dumpster after you're done."

    -Your manager

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "The price of meat is skyrocketing, you sure your wife couldn't.... contribute?"

    -Owner

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I tried reading the rest of the comments on this post but I think my soul broke, I wanted to reply to multiple of them but the words just didn't come to me

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I also feel deep sadness over it because its just so incredibly unfair and evil.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Welcome to unregulated capitalism. I was screamed at by my managers all the fucking time when I made $13/hr with 35 hours of paid sick, that never rolled over and counted as vacation time. Now I make nothing and I only scream at myself. I'll take a win where I can get one

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Yeah. Actually i admire your human spirit. Taking so much crap and still not letting it beat you down. I honestly dont know how it would transform myself if I was subjected to it. You are talking to someone who always had a cushy office jobs in IT their entire career, well paid, in Sweden.

    I havent come close to suffering the way you have in my career.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    And that is all I've ever wanted, but not having a bachelor's degree and two masters means I'm unemployable to 90% of corporations. I have been coding since I was 14 but that doesn't matter in terms of experience on job applications. After 11 years of dead end jobs that I could never live off, I'm living with my older sister who has a bachelor's degree and 2 masters and owns her house. So that how lifting yourself up by your bootstraps goes, a very common American myth is that something comes from nothing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (18 children)

    Highschool needs to teach financial literacy. $200 a month for insurance is insane. I pay that for 3 vehicles on full coverage (older trucks and suv, but damn).

    Not saying this guy is wrong to be pissed but I see a lot of people who just don't understand how to shop around for shit and just eat the cost.

    I agree with him though, we need single payer and mass transit.

    Edit: also the further I get into this. The more I think we need to single payer so he can go to therapy, cause he's depressed as hell.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    people who just don't understand how to shop around for shit and just eat the cost.

    The problem is, you can shop around and find a good deal, but that good deal is "introductory", only for new customers, so after a while the price goes back to "normal" and you have to do it all over again. Then you have to do that for every damn thing, it gets pretty tiring.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Insurance rates change depending where you are and who you are. 250 a month per vehicle for full coverage where I am. We just dropped coverage to minimum on one of them and it went down barely 15%. Shopping around found only higher rates somehow. I think insurance agencies are colluding to fix prices.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    O they absolutely collude on pricing, but $250 a month for full coverage means you're probably driving a nearly brand new car....just why. Why does everyone buy the latest and greatest constantly and then cry about how much shit costs.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nope, ones a 2015 and the others a 2017. I bought the 2017 for under 10k.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How tf do you shop around for insurance.

    My employer: you have 3 options. The high deductible HSA plan, the medium deductible plan, or the low deductible plan.

    Even if there are other options that aren’t subsidized by my employer, you can’t change your plan most of the year because of fucking open enrollment.

    How is this user error and not America being America?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Car...car insurance, it's why I called out we needing single payer healthcare. This video was a dude bitching about car insurance.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    $200 a month for insurance is peanuts if you have a teen on your policy. Our premiums tripled when we added our 16yo. He's 24 now, so pretty soon we're going to remove him from our policy and enjoy the savings.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    16 year olds shouldn't be driving anyways, so I'm not surprised your premiums went up. Also...24 and you're still paying for his insurance???

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In most states the guardians can pay insurance for their dependent up until 25, at least for healthcare and the parents are probably extending that to their son's car insurance, generously. My mom kicked me off her plan when I was 23, but I've always had to pay for my car's insurance

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    In my state, it doesn't matter if he's 25 or 55. If he drives my car regularly he has to be on my policy for my car. That's the law. He has his own policy, for his own car. I don't ever drive his car, so I'm not on his policy. But since his car is a Mini, he borrows mine a lot too. And I don't like committing insurance fraud, so I follow the law.

    Dunno where you are, but in the US, 16 year olds drive.

    And every kid and every family is different. You parent your child, and I'll parent mine. You're not entitled to even form a fucking opinion on my parenting.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    In my state, it doesn't matter if he's 25 or 55. If he drives my car regularly he has to be on my policy for my car. That's the law. He has his own policy, for his own car. I don't ever drive his car, so I'm not on his policy. But since his car is a Mini, he borrows mine a lot too. And I don't like committing insurance fraud, so I follow the law.

    The car is insured, not the driver. Your comment made it sound like you still had him on your policy for his car.

    Dunno where you are, but in the US, 16 year olds drive.

    In the USA, and while this is correct that they can drive, they shouldn't be. Just as when someone hits 65 they should be required to take yearly driver courses. A vehicle is not a right it's a privilege. We should have mass transit and the same level of driving requirements the EU has to get a license. Way to make people absolutely fucking suck at driving, and unfortunately the elderly and teens make up the majority of crashes.

    And every kid and every family is different. You parent your child, and I'll parent mine. You're not entitled to even form a fucking opinion on my parenting.

    No where did I question your parenting. I made a comment about an over all belief that kids need more responsibility these days. Calm down padre.

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