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[deleted] t1_jdurqon wrote

We need something like this in the US, but too many people here are convinced of the lie that it's somehow beneficial to them for their employers to pay them breadcrumbs while their executives make more money in a year than they'll ever see in their lives.

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dwarfstar2054 t1_jdv3pm8 wrote

Yes. I’ve learned that voting doesn’t really work. If you read history and heck even during the pandemic - they really don’t want you to stay home. Civil disobedience or general strikes across multiple industries is the only way to get the capitalist attention. However, things will have to get pretty bad for that to happen here

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globular_fluster t1_jdwablx wrote

> I’ve learned that voting doesn’t really work.

Every time someone says this a kid gets kicked out of a school lunch program.

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Spring____spring69 t1_jdv4er2 wrote

Company I work for just approved hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses for execs. The president couldn't tell you anything specific about the product for a view other than big picture stuff. I'm so happy to be over worked and unable to afford kids or a house or even to move if I wanted/needed to. Have a masters degree and work in IT. Great to see that the people who do the least at the company can afford to put down payments on three more houses just for fun this week.

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bit25slim t1_jdv3f22 wrote

You know how hard a general strike in a country this size would be? 4 time zones just on the mainland. Very different ideas in every region of what’s ideal.

The west coast is VASTLY different then the east coast. Culture, economics, etc.

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Reblyn t1_jdv6ssj wrote

Honestly, I know Americans pride themselves in being a big diverse country, but you use that excuse way too often to do nothing and you also underestimate other countries (and by extension yourselves).

Germany is not homogenous, we were a split country for several decades. The economic impact of that can still be felt and seen today. The east is significantly poorer than the west, has different cultural influences from Soviet times and generally also votes entirely different from the Western part of Germany. You can still see the Iron curtain in pretty much all German statistics. Not to mention the differences between the North and South (e.g. pretty much everyone clowns the Bavarians, they’re way more conservative and self-centered than the rest of us). It still works, because we don‘t let that stop us. You‘d do well to do the same instead of giving up instantly every single time.

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