The US is Politically to the Right of [Other] Democracies

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*60 hours a week
Laughs in European
- Right. I work 37.5 hours a week in a job I love and I hate working. I can’t imagine doing almost double.
  
  My partner used to do 60 hour weeks. She was working outdoors, in the desert (41°c on average), and only worked 4 days a week. The work culture in this country sucks...
- I know its just a meme and I think you're right to point it out but I feel bad for laughing.
  In the UK, as one example, its default unlawful to work more than 45 hours a week. You have to choose to sign this away. Refusal to agree can't be used as a reason to fire you or choose not to hire you, unless its like the police or army or something.
  The UK is worse in different places and has this too. So, its not about being superior or any of that BS. But the US is full on, mask-off, you are cattle and the mega rich are your ranchers. You can't even just simply move to a different country to escape paying for gargantuan corporate benefits. They own you and they don't care if you know it.
  
  In the UK, as one example, its default unlawful to work more than 45 hours a week.
  It's 5 hours more than in Russia. Please fix.
  
  There's functionally no enforcement of what was formerly the EU working time directive being voluntary to opt out of. If a company wants you to sign (and in some fields, they will, even if they've got no reason to) they can always pretend to have found some other reason not to hire you.
- I worked 12h shifts for 7 days a week, as a european. Hoping to gather enough money to buy a house...guess what, my 40h job barely covers the cost of living nowadays and i'm not fit to work more hours. Plus i ended up running short with every passing year, when i needed a 200€ wage increase to afford a mortgage by the time i got that i needed another €150 wage increase.
  A single family home used to be 150k, now those go for 500k and my wage ended up in the exact same spot where i started at the age of 21. (Before that it was a youth wage and surprise surprise i could rent a bigger house back then than i currently am on my adult wage)
  Somedays i just want to stop showing up for work and stop paying rent, weaponize myself and keep the house by force.
  Fuck this shitshow we are in.
  
  What does your union think of that?
  
  The fact that my wage has no value or that i want to go nuts?

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