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The entire US business culture, which extends deeply into US culture as a whole, puts employers over employees at almost every turn. What protections workers in
by no_wizard 2y ago
The entire US business culture, which extends deeply into US culture as a whole, puts employers over employees at almost every turn. What protections workers in the US do have, businesses try to circumvent all the time, not to mention many things, such as the ADA have no concrete definitions for things like what a reasonable accommodation must be (they do have examples of generally accepted things, but it isn't a decree) which allows for all kinds of ways of non compliance.
Not to mention, its unfortunately common that exercising any rights workers have will often work against you, being passed up for promotions etc.
Its strange how much power we give employers over employees, and how regular people defend this, even when its actively working against them.
- kevin_b_er 2y ago> Its strange how much power we give employers over employees, and how regular people defend this, even when its actively working against them. "Because, one day, I will be a rich person, and I will be able to be cruel to the little people. I don't want to prevent me being able to abuse people if I'm in that position!"
- jfengel 2y agoAlso, "I am fundamentally smarter/better/more diligent than my fellow employees. My employer might recognize that with more compensation, but my fellow employees will not. They will drag me down and promote the unworthy." Pitting employees against each other is a classic.
- cscurmudgeon 2y agoThe other side of the coin is that US salaries are among the highest in the world by PPP and 3rd highest nominally. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1338750/average-monthly-salaries-countries-highest-worldwide https://www.statista.com/statistics/1338750/average-monthly-...
- aantix 2y agoApparently I need to move to Luxembourg.
- no_wizard 2y agoAverage is really skewed though, because the top end is very very high and the more important metric would be net income, not gross income (which PPP does not account for) If you look at net disposable income, the US is ranked 33rd[0] [0]: https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?tm=income%20distribution&pg=0&snb=13&vw=tb&df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_HSL%40DF_HSL_CWB&df[ag]=OECD.WISE.WDP&df[vs]=1.0&pd=%2C&dq=.1_1.USD_PPP_PS._T._T._T.HSL_1&ly[cl]=TIME_PERIOD&ly[rw]=REF_AREA&to[TIME_PERIOD]=false&lb=nm https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?tm=income%20distribution&...
- harimau777 2y agoAm I reading the data that you linked wrong? It looks to me like US is highest on the chart with $52400. What am I missing?
- hollerith 2y agoI agree with your reading.
- cscurmudgeon 2y agoYou are correct. US is 33rd alphabetically and first by the disposable income. What I find amazing is you have to really count the rows to get that US is 33rd (alphabetically) as the rows are unnumbered. OP did that and didn't realize the rows are sorted alphabetically.
- twoodfin 2y agoI’m trying to understand how that link supports your claim but utterly failing. For net disposable income the US even laps small, rich Luxembourg.
- cscurmudgeon 2y agoYou do realize that US is ranked first in the list . It is the 33rd alphabetically!! Thanks for proving my point :) [0] https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?tm=income%20distribution&pg=0&snb=13&vw=tb&df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_HSL%40DF_HSL_CWB&df[ag]=OECD.WISE.WDP&df[vs]=1.0&pd=%2C&dq=.1_1.USD_PPP_PS._T._T._T.HSL_1&ly[cl]=TIME_PERIOD&ly[rw]=REF_AREA&to[TIME_PERIOD]=false&lb=nm https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?tm=income%20distribution&...
- BenFranklin100 2y agoYou sound like the kind of person that needs to start their own company.