• Kekzkrieger@feddit.org
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    24 hours ago

    When the top 10% start paying their fair share in taxes, healthcare is reformed so i can find a doc again and we finally get rid of the shit oil and instead invest in renewable energies then and only then will i start working more than 4 days a week until then Merz can suck dick.

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      21 hours ago

      If you look at the raw materials used by society-the oil, wood, water, metal, etc.-it is overwhelmingly used by the majority. The rich people have more resources than the average poor person, but it’s still a small fraction of the existing physical resources.

      If we were to take all their stuff and divide it evenly amongst everyone, it wouldn’t necessarily solve our problems. It would be a moral victory. They would become poor and we would become a percent or two less poor.

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    Also unemployment is getting worse while companies fail to get contracts. But oh no, it‘s all the lazy worker‘s fault!

    This is the worst government I have ever experienced. Things could be so much better if the current coalition wasn‘t genuinely malicious if not straight out hostile towards the working class.

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    22 hours ago

    That sick leave rate do be high tho. It’s not meant for a day off, Germany already has plenty of days off. Crazy headline

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      21 hours ago

      That’s because people actually take sick days when they’re sick 🤯

      In the US, they just work until they can’t and then they’re fired and have to recover while both unemployed and having neglected their health

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        20 hours ago

        It’s supposed to, but then you don’t get to 15 days per year, let alone 20 days in 2023. That’s 4 full working weeks in a year. I’m not saying people should be forced to work when sick, but something is off here. Looking at other stats, people aren’t sick that many days a year

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          What’s the median though? Through burnout, chronic illnesses,… some people are out sick for weeks or months at a time. That moves the average significantly.

          Also e.g. parents becoming sick via their children more than they would on their own. And so on.

          In any case - this isn’t really an issue, is it? It has worked without issue for a long time. This is simply an attempt to reduce workers’ rights and reduce spending at the cost of the poor and middle class, because the top few percent are sacred to the CDU.