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Do I get to choose who does and doesn't get laid off? I'm being facetious but I honestly don't know. I've become a softy in my old age. I can imagine how deepl

Do I get to choose who does and doesn't get laid off? I'm being facetious but I honestly don't know. I've become a softy in my old age. I can imagine how deeply awful it would be for a breadwinner with a home and kids. Even for people I work with that I don't particularly like, I wouldn't want to put them in that situation. Like a lot of Americans I've been experiencing a lot of envy for the more socialist European companies where maybe people have less to gain, but they also have less to lose. All I really want is a comfortable life for me and my family. I'd like the same for everyone else.

ChatGTP 3y ago
As someone who has lived in Europe and since returned. I can tell you people there are way way more happy and I’m also more frequently seeing the “saltiness” towards Europeans on here because of it. I remember working in Europe, and going to the park during a week day and seeing all these parents, both Mum and Dad playing with their children in the sun with this kind of carelessness about them. I vividly remember being shocked at that scene. I’d never seen it before. People would just go home from work and not “grind” away at their jobs. I think given a few more years of “automation” and most Americans might think differently about free market capitalism. Maybe at that stage it’ll be too late to change to something better? Europe is a kind or project too, it’s a work in progress. I think their systems will just improve over time.