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Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?
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well we have that situation in germany right now where supposedly daycare is good because it allows women to work more hours (full time instead of half time)
it's ... let me tell you, it's a shitshow. i have come to understand that the internet is largely a propaganda apparatus. they install the thought in you that a certain way of seeing things is "normal", because everybody sees it that way. in other words, the other bots or paid influencers (idk which one) that the algorithm then pushes sothat everybody sees it.
you got 1 crazy person saying things like "actually, we should all work more, i like it, it's fun" and you know what, they can say that. anyways, that's 1 person in 1000. then the algorithm pushes it on everybody's front page sothat now everybody thinks "ah, that's a normal thing to think". and since most people follow group-think, that's now society's opinion.
internet exists to cause a shift in public opinion by astroturfing. the illusion that the thought comes from within society organically.
WHO guidelines say children should stay with mother until 3 to bond and go to childcare from 3 to get social skills. But germany only pays up for like 1 yr and even that only limited. Grandparents have to work until they are barely fit enough to help too.
Makes you wonder, with all those technical advances we have, why we work more and more having worse living conditions down the drain.
Hmm so I both agree and disagree with you here. Hustle culture arises from societal things here such as hyperindividualism, Puritan work ethic and toxic masculinity that grifters package and push (where I agree with you). But it's metastasizing from us to you all so it seems alien.