Or you live in most countries that aren't the US. The US has some of the worst work conditions in the world because you keep voting for people who hate you.
We can't choose where we live, and most of us didn't vote for this. Our grandparents did (although they enjoyed the system themselves).
Now we've inherited it along with a million other problems, and union-busting is something most of our politicians are really good at
No, they're right. Even most democrats hate the crap out of their voters and work for corporate interests. When given a choice for more left leaning typed people still choose the corporate establishment.
The people who enjoyed those benefits keep voting against the younger generations having those same benefits*
Fixed. We have two very large voting blocs vying against worker rights interests: the old who always had them, assume they are a given at "good" jobs so it's your fault you don't have benefits because you took a bad job and never applied yourself, or are quite simply out of touch because when you tell them you make $30k a year they say "so what, I did too, still saved for a house, a car, had kids, a retirement fund, and I did it all on bare minimum health insurance, whenever I got hurt I just rubbed dirt in it and didn't cry so hard", and then the remainders of that generation with good jobs down to Gen X and older millennials think the same way sometimes, you have no idea how many people my age I've argued with who say a six figure salary is just enough to make ends meet, or how many people say "so what, if you ever put any work in you wouldn't still be doing THAT job" as of jobs that pay over $50k grow on trees or are willing to hire entry level no relevant education, you could even have a degree in something else you'll be treated same as a fry cook, which isn't even a bad job besides pay. That's why I hate the term "unskilled labor" y'all know what you did calling it unskilled when I've personally witnessed some of y'all break down a lot sooner than expected when you pick up some extra hours in a restaurant because you don't have the skills it takes to cope when you're not doing well much less the skills it takes to do it well.
"Unskilled just means you can teach anyone to do it within a week" okay I can teach anyone to catch a baseball in a week, I'm still gonna fire the people who arent really good at it, and doesn't matter how good you are at catching baseballs when I throw twenty at the same time. Like Jeremy over there can catch five before the rest hit the ground. You caught one and you panicked doing it and almost missed it. Sounds like it's a skill and Jeremy is more skilled than you, so Jeremy keeps his job and I have the unfortunate conversation that it just isn't working out, even though on paper technically I could train a monkey to do it.
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u/diamondmx 22h ago
Or you live in most countries that aren't the US. The US has some of the worst work conditions in the world because you keep voting for people who hate you.