The employer wants a doctor's note, for you to get a paid sick day? They explicitly do not trust your self-assessment? I think this is a cultural defect. Evide

The employer wants a doctor's note, for you to get a paid sick day? They explicitly do not trust your self-assessment? I think this is a cultural defect. Evidence? We keep getting most everything wrong and paying more per capital to do it. The free market failures. The government failures. Their various incentives are widely considered flawed or perverse. We even fail to have effective conversations, almost immediately they get rail roaded, and we allow them to be rail roaded. The language strikes me as a lot of attachment/adoration for ideological things like "the free market" and "proper regulation" and being unable to get past our emotional attachments to these things. Literally the entire rest of the industrialized world does this better and cheaper per capita, and somehow Americans keep defending the system using various slogans and name calling. I think it's bad culture, like a national mental health disorder, resulting from long term cognitive dissonance. The longer it continues, it's like a perpetually recurring psychological trauma, at a national level.