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Not sure why you are being down voted, this is a fantastic list of things this country desperately needs to improve upon.
Because it’s an unfounded list of complaints. Other than American exceptionalism you could easily argue that all countries have sub cultures with those exact same problems.
In a place I worked, if someone left at 5:30 pm, the CTO used to joke "half day today?", even though the person came in at 9 am. In many places I worked in the US, it is somewhat of a badge of honor to spend long hours at work (how many of those are actually productive, is a different story). And these aren't even startups. This can't continue - an entire generation of people have been brainwashed that hard work = go…
An interesting take on this in Spain recently was that unpaid overtime was effectively "robbing from state taxes", because those extra hours should have been paid and so contribute to the government coffers. This resulted in a law (mostly defanged, self reports and no real punishment) that companies must track the time employees spend at work.
Why is "unpaid overtime is robbing from state taxes" a better argument than "unpaid overtime is robbing from workers"?
This shit is toxic masculinity in action – the part that affects men. Women protest this kind of thing because if they have children they need to go home to, then they are unable to compete on hours with men who can stay late and rely on their wives. But men deserve time with their families too, and single people deserve downtime. Toxic masculinity drives this competition of who can suffer more for the company, and everyone loses (except the shareholders).
An interesting take on this in Spain recently was that unpaid overtime was effectively "robbing from state taxes", because those extra hours should have been paid and so contribute to the government coffers. This resulted in a law (mostly defanged, self reports and no real punishment) that companies must track the time employees spend at work.
Why is "unpaid overtime is robbing from state taxes" a better argument than "unpaid overtime is robbing from workers"?
> We have our own culturally ingrained things in America that I'd like to change as well, and that are changing, but so slowly. How do you implement change? Out of curiosity, what would you like to change in the US?
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Not sure why you are being down voted, this is a fantastic list of things this country desperately needs to improve upon.
Because it’s an unfounded list of complaints. Other than American exceptionalism you could easily argue that all countries have sub cultures with those exact same problems.
If my house is burning down it's not made acceptable by my neighbor's house also burning down.
Was the actual series linked anywhere in the article ? I might have missed it, for anyone else looking for it: https://www.tbs.co.jp/watatei/
In general, how do you link to a TV show? They don't have websites per se.
An interesting take on this in Spain recently was that unpaid overtime was effectively "robbing from state taxes", because those extra hours should have been paid and so contribute to the government coffers. This resulted in a law (mostly defanged, self reports and no real punishment) that companies must track the time employees spend at work.
Why is "unpaid overtime is robbing from state taxes" a better argument than "unpaid overtime is robbing from workers"?
An interesting take on this in Spain recently was that unpaid overtime was effectively "robbing from state taxes", because those extra hours should have been paid and so contribute to the government coffers. This resulted in a law (mostly defanged, self reports and no real punishment) that companies must track the time employees spend at work.
That argument doesn’t really make sense.
which step don't you agree with?