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[+] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)
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    In a better country, your non-profit wouldn't need to exist because it was a government service.

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    And that's wonderful. But you should all be government employees with access to full benefits. People shouldn't have to worry about proving they qualify for the right to have access to food.

    Food, shelter, healthcare, and clean water are human rights that should be guaranteed to anyone regardless of income, citizenship, criminal background, or anything else.

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    But do companies pay it or is there a national fund?

    Listen, I agree that people need time to have lunch and take shits.

    But why are businesses forced to pay for these hours of idle labor? Shouldn't we have the government assume the cost they're imposing on private industry?

    We should be privatizing the profits. We need socialize the losses. That's the only way a business can actually function profitably.

    someone who runs a very small nonprofit organization that feeds our community with a handful of employees

    Should definitely be keeping a staffer with influenza on site, making food for other people.

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

    Whatever works for Europe, let's do that.

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    Sure, that's kind of a truism. But I really, really struggle to find one thing* that the United States, as a nation, does better than, say, Germany or the Netherlands.

    (* ) Here I'm restricting myself to stuff that the people benefit from obviously. The US is really good at killing civilians in other nations, they're really good at holding the world economy hostage, that sort of stuff, but not anything that actually matters to people who live in the US.

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