Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.
European here: WTF?
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Keep protesting American products please. It actually will help. If trump is losing the US money, he will be reigned in.
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This is what happens when your government loves business more than people. Do not feed the corporations. They will do this to you too.
Then you should remember the rise of fascism pretty clearly. That is “what the fuck”
Just a quick question: do people above the age of 17 not get guaranteed meal breaks?
No. Or any other kind of break. Also benefits are determined by part time vs full time, which itself is generally determined be working either less than 40 hours a week, or 40+. In other words part time is generally 39.99999 hours a week.
You wouldn't believe labour rights here in Germany. And yet, the work gets done.
Yeah, but your social safety nets are strong, and rich people and companies are highly taxed in order to fund those social safety nets. That makes any random worker far more motivated to go and do their job than if they were getting absolutely ass-fucked in 1 trillion different ways every hour of every day, like they are in the United States — purely in the name of prophet –, all while the propaganda tries to convince them and everyone else that’s because they are “weak“.
I suddenly have no difficulty understanding why the red October revolutionist didn’t try to “rehabilitate” the imperials, and just murdered the fucking a lot of them.
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I worked for a German company briefly. The pay was great and they literally wouldn't let me do overtime. Best job I've ever had.
Come back! Germany will need loads of qualified workers in the coming years. There are 500 billion to be spent on infrastructure and the labor market is already quite tight. We will need people everywhere and in many places English-speaking colleagues are not a problem.
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Oh i would believe them. I'm a federal employee (for now), we're considered to have "great benefits" that are actually less than the bare minimum in many first world countries; we also get less pay (at least in IT) compared to private sector to "justify" these benefits. The benefits they are constantly chipping away it while also taking more out of our paychecks each year with raises below actual cost of living and inflation.
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To add to the previous comment, no.
Any benefits above slavery have been hard-fought, and hard-won for nearly a century. Hell, even the concept of a “weekend“ didn’t exist until union workers protested to the point where they demanded two days off every week.
Never forget: anything you have, anything you enjoy, anything that makes your life better… Thousands and, possibly, hundreds of thousands of people had to fight (and die) for decades before they even got a fraction of what we have now. And it’s always the fascist that wanna take it away.
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Looking at the other comments I guess it depends on the state. I'm in my 30s and have had a few friends over the years tell me that they sued, and won, their employers for missing breaks. Needless to say all of my managers/bosses have gone out of their way to make sure I get my breaks to avoid that happening. I have even heard of situations where people just randomly get a check in the mail because somebody else sued the company and after an audit it was discovered that the company was not allowing for proper breaks. This forced all past employees to get compensated for it. California in case you're wondering.
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Why the hell would you want children working overnight on school nights?
“Worst thing a fruit picker can learn is that they don’t have to be a fruit picker.” - Big Fruit
Even worse, that they’re the ones generating the money.
So they drop/fail out of school. An uneducated labor force is a cheap labor force.
An Uneducated Labor Force also ensure those laborers can't compete for better positions, or demand better conditions.
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And a fantastic, "ask no questions" kind of military force
Also they don't get taught critical thinking skills to understand why things are the way they are and easier to manipulate. That said my understanding of the general US education system is that it doesn't teach that (or much of it) anyways.
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That is irrelevant because they are also removing schooling for the children that will be taking those jobs.
~Supposed to be read somewhat /s but also not really /s because that is the plan~
Imagine the kids get smart and start thinking on their own as adults. They would no longer vote Rep. Imagine that!
They already thought of that. The department of education has already been dismantled. If there are no school nights there's no problem, right?
Not just children. Anyone who isn’t rich, white, cis, straight, and Christian. If you’re not rich, then you must be a piece of shit, and you deserve nothing, not even the most basic human dignity (according to the 0.01%)
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I'm not against letting teenagers work as long as there are protections. Removing guaranteed meals and overnight work? Nah.
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Dodged the bullet by being born in the 80s. We played Atari and Nintendo after school, then bicycle patrol around neighborhood
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These will be a majority of white kids, right? Riiiight?
Ducking dystopia.
Oddly, it very well may be, considering that any “not white “people who show up to get job jobs will be deported just because they’re not white.
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That guaranteed meal break should be extended, not rolled back. After 4 hours every worker should have a 30 minute break to eat. It's not just humane, it's common sense that fed people work better. Even if you exclude the 30 minutes from their hours, which I bet was already what was going on.
30 minute PAID break. The break lets them be more productive. The pay helps them be less stressed.
It's good policy that helps the employers, even the ones too dumb to know it.
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Americans: End abortion!
World: Oh, are you worried about what your gods might think?
Americans: Huh? Nope. I just needs that there little fucker flippin' muh burgers. I aint 'spected ta do it muhself.
How absolutely ghoulish
That’s fascism for you
Reminds me of when I was a dumb teen and had a bit of a Libertarian phase. Glad I grew up.
I had that bug in spite of being disabled. I read Atlas Shrugged.
It was an eye opener on just how incredibly selfish the whole ideology is. If even the THOUGHT of alturism is seen as something to be punished?
It really helped me that I read some history and thought about it for more than five minutes. Ayn Rand, she is like the idea of selling your house before it goes under the sea due to climate change, makes sense if you don't add the real world context back into it. A conclusion can follow logically from its premise and assumptions, but that does not ensure the inputs were correct.
I like to ask Libertarians, when I bump into them, what happened between some date to a year of your choosing that prevented the market from developing its own solution.
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Guys who wrote this bill probably: "The children yearn for the mines."
No no, you don't understand, the free market sets wages! If the boss can't find workers at the rate they set then they have to ~~raise wages~~ ....hire children!!
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Read the fine print tho: "Due to lack of migrant workers." What's that again? Lack of migrants you say? Whatever could be causing that?
It also wants to starve children! FREEDUM
Not just children. Anyone who isn’t rich, white, cis, straight, and Christian. If you’re not rich, then you must be a piece of shit, and you deserve nothing, not even the most basic human dignity.
How else are they going to teach those leeches how to fend for themselves?
I hope the sarcasm is obvious there.
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Some people think that education might be important for the jobs of the future. Qualifying for university is an option on such a future.
Other people think fuck the future, we need more people taking a career path that starts as a dishwasher right now.
Very few of these other people will question "what was wrong with the dishwasher we had?"
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