• AOCapitulator [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    According to who?

    Could it be, the United States? The most vicious and bloody empire the world has ever known?

    That aside (like, wow, holy fuck)

    If you could not recognize the earlier comments as an indication of western capitalism, you are rich or otherwise so privileged you cannot comprehend the struggles of the average person

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Or maybe you’re overreacting a little. I don’t deny struggles such as those by the average person, but being unable to take care of one’s health is not one of them. That’s also why I answered “North Korea” to someone’s assertion that there’s a place where this is an issue. America allows people to take time away to recuperate, even for mental health, and has this thing called SSI for the chronically unhealthy.

          • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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            1 year ago

            Yeah tell that to the overworked service worker, or the many other people with two jobs. The fact that a comfortable white-collar dickhead can take time off, doesn’t really mean much to me when every teacher, every driver, every railworker, every barista, chef, roadworker, janitor and every other prole is fucked

            • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              That sounds like a very forced generalization, especially considering that certain examples doesn’t disprove the whole of a practice that you originally said didn’t exist at all. I know people in all these fields who do this. I’ve been called into a psych ward before, proof it’s even systemically embedded or else that aspect of the system wouldn’t work.