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> You can be fired at a moment's notice and be forced into poverty How the hell does an employer force someone into poverty? What country do you live in where
by jcampbell1 15y ago
> You can be fired at a moment's notice and be forced into poverty
How the hell does an employer force someone into poverty? What country do you live in where an employer can just take the employee's savings, or prevent them from getting another job? Does your government not provide unemployment benefits? I don't want to move there.
- omouse 15y agoSavings? You must come from a privileged background! Some of us have to build our savings from scratch and take out mass loans just to go to school. We're in debt in our first few years of employment, so yes, the alternative to working for a crappy wage is poverty. Unemployment benefits only apply once you've put some of your money into it. Taking another job? Really? So fighting for an 8-hour day was basically a useless fight because wages can be driven so low?