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> Pro-employee policies are necessarily anti-employer I can't help but feel offended that you feel this way. As a technocrat, sure, let's treat employees as nu
by vecinu 5y ago
> Pro-employee policies are necessarily anti-employer
I can't help but feel offended that you feel this way. As a technocrat, sure, let's treat employees as numbers on a sheet that we can hire and fire at will because who cares about them as people right?
Don't forget employees are people, with families, who are usually working to sustain their own lives.
It saddens me how deep this US-centric rhetoric on treating employees unfairly has gone.
- BobbyJo 5y agoWhat way do I feel? I'm very pro-worker's rights, I'm just pointing out the flaw in the EUs approach.
- vecinu 5y agoI'm not sure how you feel, that's up to you to tell us. The EU has done a fantastic job of respecting worker rights, from the right to disconnect, to time off / vacation from work, worker's rights for employment and having a social safety net if you become unemployed. If you like metrics you can read the world happiness report [1] or look at how the OECD measures income inequality across the world [2], the US is below most European countries. [1] https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/WHR+21.pdf https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/WHR+21.pdf [2] https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm