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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also your right to protest is well protected.

If you try to protest in the US like France you might as well fucking die lol. Either the cops are going to shoot you or you lose your job after day 4 or less of protesting and your kids starve / you can no longer pay for the gas to get to the protest.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Correct. I think bundling health insurance with employment is primarily to force everyone to work and artificially lower the cost of labor, but a side benefit of forcing everyone to live paycheck to paycheck is they have no time to agitate for change. Also you will be pepper sprayed in the face or beaten half to death by goons backed by the state.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

That bundle of insurance or benefits with work was originally a fringe benefit to inflate value of positions iirc, but in current times yeah I think you got it.