• Kekzkrieger@feddit.org
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    7 days 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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      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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      7 days ago

      What country is that?

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          Well, you’re living in the future, I guess, that’s great

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            Certainly better than being burned out and not wanting to live any more. Having been there, I’m happy that the option exists. Even though I’ve had to reduce my living standards a little bit.

  • qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    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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      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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        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.

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      I would call it Umsturzbedürftig, meaning something along the line of in need of a revolt/revolution.

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      Change to what? The current situation looks like this:

      • The conservatives (CDU) are currently in charge on an anti-labor and no progress route
      • Socialists (SPD) are in coalition with conservatives and do not oppose
      • Ecologists (Grüne) are hated with only 14%
      • Communists (Linke) are barely visible these days (10%) because of internal conflicts
      • Fascists (AfD) are leading in election researches

      This doesn’t look good in any way. The conservatives know very well that no matter what they do, they will be in the next government…

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          They are right leaning conservatives that happily bend over for CDU, but pretend to be a workers party.

          Calling “Die Linke” communist is also extremely disingenuous. Taxing the rich and capping rent are not communism

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            Exactly, Die Linke is what the SPD is supposed to be or was many many decades ago.

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        Shit, it looks like Höcke really will be Chancellor. History rhymes and Germans really do want to repeat the same mistakes.

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        Commies + Nazies get more than 1/3 votes. Looks doomed asf.

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          “Die Linke” is not a communist party. You should be more concerned that two far-right party’s would have over 50% of seats combined

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            Moderate right wing parties don’t concern me as much as radical lunatics from either side.

            The subject of Ukraine is a litmus paper test for the party if they live in reality, and Linke doesnt pass.

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              Go back to reddit, even there you can learn that the horseshoe “theory” is bullshit.

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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.