Amen to pretty much all that.sockwithaticket wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:23 pm I've often seen it said that the US is a great place to be well off and a dreadful place to be anything other than upper middle class.
They may perform well on a lot of raw metrics, but so many states have essentially zero worker protections and benefits on the statute books, it's all at the largesse of the employer. Some states have been trying to roll back restrictions on child workers so that they can legally get 12 - 16 year olds into things like slaughterhouses. Insane.
Healthcare costing them so much and having health insurance tied to employment in many cases, when that employment is incredibly insecure, is evil in my book.
It's a psychopathic, hyper-capitalist hellscape. Britain may not be doing so well, but if the cost of 'doing well' (on paper in a way that bypasses huge swathes of the population) is American levels of de-regulation and employer supremacy, they can keep it.
I'd rather not return to the Victorian workhouse era.