It’s just fucking wild reading shit like this German sick leave bullshit knowing that it shouldn’t take even a grade school education to immediately understand the numerous inefficiencies that’s going to cause both in the healthcare system wasting the time of doctors and workers but also like, for societal health overall as more and more people are made sick for literally no reason other than some dipshit who should be made dead feeling like the austerity of “not paying for sick leave” is what’s actually efficient despite literally every single one of us knowing how fucking wrong they are
Like, is there a single place in the west that isn’t either already literally hell or eagerly reforming itself into looking exactly like it? Jesus fucking christ.
Another thing to consider: If you’re legally allowed up to an hour’s break (I am for example), why aren’t we allowed to just leave one hour early instead?
It’s because chances are most of us won’t take that break, or we’ll take less than the full amount, and the rest of the time we’re working; if we can leave an hour early instead, we absolutely will.
It’s all about control.
Ireland is going slower than most places. feels like the main quality of our government is that they don’t do anything, just minimal upkeep on the neoliberal status quo and funnelling money to landlords. economically we’re in a bad spot, and were ahead of the curve on getting there, but the fascism is creeping in at a slower pace than a lot of euro countries. since the govt have no interest in disenfranchisement of fascists it is ticking along though and probably a matter of time before they start outright catering to them more (already underway with the legitimising of the so called “immigration issue”). it’s also very obvious that we are a popular target for various monied right wing foreign interests. for now it’s basically a lot less shit here than the other anglo countries and certainly germany and france. Spain is a less bad place to live for now but their soc dem reforms could be taken away overnight
And the citizens of each and every country fucking love it. Because those funny guys on 4chan told them to.
Westerners are barbaric
France could really go sicko mode if Melenchon wins next year. look at me putting my hopes in electoralism again but it would be a huge deal for the region
Maybe France, Spain, and Portugal in the EU? Mexico and maybe to an extent, Canada in N America?
France and Portugal were trying to push for a bullshit neoliberal reform that got pushed back because all the left-wing parties and groups were against it, they threaten a general strike and at the last minute the far-right pulled their support for the reform. Spain is ok with their own citizens but their goverment is really racist towards Latin Americans and Africans.
IIRC Canada is doing austerity to increase war spending so check them off the list.
Yeah, Carney is just speed running Starmer shit
Spain did get on a soc dem thing to fix demographic decline but the problem is that all of it could go away overnight
All those countries are worse than Germany when it comes to sick pay even after Merz fucking it up.
France?
I think maybe Iceland?
This is the result of there being no communist state that’s a viable alternative (China is very non-confrontational and it’s tough to immigrate there). Couping USSR was really the capitalist masterplan
