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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 31 points 23 hours ago

Nah dawg.

We're all going to work until we're so old that when we retire we don't get to enjoy what's left of our lives. Instead we'll get to experience non-stop health problems, hospital visits, surgeries, daily pill schedules you can't skip or you die, and general exhaustion.

Literally happening to both my parents exactly like this.

And that's if you even make it to retirement, which I've personally witnessed a few people not do.

It's a scam y'all. Dipshits floating around on yachts while we die working. Wanna fix it all? Gotta get together, hold hands, and have a general strike until our demands are met. Totally possible, but not going to happen.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago

I don't expect to retire.

I'll probably be found at my desk on a Monday, not even first thing, but like, at 11:45, after dying there sometime Friday afternoon, and people just thought I was "working late" and left for the weekend, while I'm a literal corpse.

Whatever. I'm over it. I won't have any fucks left to give when that happens because I won't be alive to give any fucks.

[-] EldenLord@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Gotta get together

This is it. This is literally the secret behind which Utopia is sealed. There are so, so many decent, empathetic humans that we could easily banish the narcissist, malevolent dipshits that make earth hell from our society.

Problem: even "good" humans have their flaws baked into their genes and brains, we are far too easily swept up into a a "us vs. them" dynamic. The only way of fixing this is to manually control your emotional behaviour and correct yourself constantly. Don‘t exhaust yourself with that, but try to remember what you really value before becoming a puppet for people with bad interests.

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

If no one works summer how will Waffle House stay open

This or 4 day work weeks. One or the other, or I'll do nothing and just accept it.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

4 day work weeks or 52 vacation days per year as a minimum. You can either take one day a week and only work 4 days each week, or save them up and take a 10 week vacation.

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[-] kungfuratte@feddit.org 9 points 19 hours ago

I'm more for mandatory winter sleep.

[-] darcranium123@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Universal basic income could help us achieve this. There are people working right now to make this a reality in America

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

There was a time back when this was possible.

Bikers back in the day would work construction or some other hard labor for half the year and then hit the road for 2-4 months.

The partial working income was enough to cover all thier bills, the bike/gear, motel stays and drinking.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

the retirement goal is to be a year round camp host for the park system. I'd say national park, but my favorite is a state park and i don't expect the US national park system to exist in, uh, carry the two, 2065 when I am finally allowed to either die or retire.

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[-] Defectus@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Maybe if there were some way to organize and make demands against the employer.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 88 points 1 day ago

Tell me you’re not in Europe without saying you’re not in Europe

[-] McDropout@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I mean continuous 3 month vacation is not a thing, even in Europe

[-] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

If you work in education it sort of can be.

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Was going to comment the same thing 😅

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

I get that it's fun to dunk on us Americans, but do you really have 3 months paid time off from work every year?

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

No. Minimum by law in Germany is 20 days paid vacation and depending on the employer you get additional days.

[-] atlien51@lemm.ee 10 points 23 hours ago

Corporate: not a chance in hell. You’re lucky you get annual leave at all, if it wasn’t mandated by law you’d never get that either.

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[-] 1yjgjmmt5988@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Norway is basically shut down for most of July 👌

[-] kerf@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Hey neighbor! Sweden too, need a few weeks to find that one sunny summer day

[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago

Our European counterparts are laughing at us, who don't take a month off every year. And for some reason, this is how I see them doing so.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

I'm not really a Marxist but I do believe in "Workers of the world, unite!" and that includes Yankees. Laughing at your misfortune because I'm getting fucked with slightly more lube would be kinda short sighted.

Laughing at your misfortune because I’m getting fucked with slightly more lube

i should not have laughed so hard at that.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago

Eh. In practice, we're fairly abused as well. I may have more holidays than my US counterparts, but in reality I can only take vacation when the schedule of the company allows it, which is never more than a week at a time at best and like three days in a row realistically.

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 58 points 1 day ago

Depends on a country of course yeah, my home country has a law that forces us to use continuous, uninterrupted, 3 week vacation in a year.

Same here, buts it's 2 weeks

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[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago

That seems to be highly dependent on location...we also have to coordinate with the needs of the company where i live, however we are still entitled to minimum 3 weeks vacation during summer (june-august) and at least two of them back to back regardless of the needs of the company.

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[-] Aliktren@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

So... become france

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yep, this is the great adjustment america needs.

I have 7 weeks of paid leave yearly to use as I please, however, my autism makes taking more than two weeks of pause together a struggle. I need my routines, even the work one. I found that taking small breaks of 2-3 days often (save for the 2 weeks I take in summer) works much better for me than taking a long pause. Longer pauses screw with my routines and they are actually worse and more draining than small and frequent pauses.

Of course this is because I have to work, if work weren't a necessity, I'd be perfectly well without it because I'd create routines to occupy the time I spend working.

I'd be willing to work 14 hours a week voluntarily if i didn't have other responsibilities.

[-] lemmebee@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Got laid off a couple of weeks ago, been chilling with my 6 and 9 year old niece and nephew, been going to the beach/pool everyday. It’s heaven (need to get a job though).

[-] voldage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

General strike lets gooo

[-] smol_beans@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

:Cries in American while being laughed at by Spain and France:

as another user in the comments here put it quite well:

we shouldn't be laughing at the people in the US just because we're fucked in the ass with slightly more lube.

[-] xtools@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago

i take 6 weeks of unpaid leave every year, additionally to my 5 weeks of paid leave. i can only recommend it.

[-] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

There are not many employers that allow that in my experience.

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[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago

We could have that and more, but the shareholders don't approve.

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[-] space@reddthat.com 16 points 1 day ago

We shouldn't be limited to a summer break we should do seasonal breaks instead. I would cover the summer season if someone else would cover my autumn or winter.

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[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

You'd have a revolution on your hands if hard working people suddenly realized what they were missing when the 3-month vacation is denied them the next year.

[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I can only hope that the US goes through a revolution in the near future. I'm so tired of hearing about how poorly treated we are compared to other countries around the world. American #1 my ass. The things that the US ranks high in are considered the worst things to be highly ranked in. (Unless you're a lunatic, dictator, oligarchy at wits' end, etc.

[-] moonbunny 2 points 22 hours ago

I feel this so much. I just want to have a few consecutive months off in a row and then I’ll be good to go for the rest of the year

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