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by traveling 10y ago
See the means test here: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/health/medical_cards_an... Sounds comprehensive to you? The income threshold is so low that only unemployed people qualify.
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by traveling 10y ago
Ok I'm going to give you the country, it's Ireland. Some medical card for the destitute exists but if you're working you don't qualify. The whole medical system is a nightmare, but it's a very small country as well.
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by traveling 10y ago
Call me overly cynical, but the future is looking even worse with ever increasing automation. There will most likely be a small elite of technocrats and wealthy while everybody else is living in shacks competing for whatever jobs are left.
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by traveling 10y ago
I don't want to dox myself, but you can probably guess which western European country doesn't. Healthcare isn't US level expensive there where you'll go bankrupt with any minor issue but still prohibitively expensive if
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by traveling 10y ago
>I wonder why they do this. The $$$ savings for the lesser hours are peanuts given the low wages. Managers and supervisors always work for achievements, which are usually made on the back of the lower rungs by saving money and increasing
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by traveling 10y ago
An unskilled operational role. I worked for outsourcers before as well doing support type jobs. Bad pay, ever increasing performance pressure, no benefits (no sick pay or health insurance), so if you got sick you were shit out of luck and h
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by traveling 10y ago
He made 2k a month with tips. I was not protected by any labor laws as I was a contractor and not an employee (their way to get around benefits and employee related regulations). I'm also living in a first world country where costs of
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by traveling 10y ago
Newsflash: Life sucks anywhere when you're poor and uneducated. I worked as an independent Google contractor before for less than $11 an hour with very stringent rules, ever increasing performance requirements, no holidays, no sick pay
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What Software / SaaS do you use that you don't feel you utilize 100%?
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