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Too many non-working holidays in America
(lemmy.world)
We are all getting fucked by captaitalism
"STFU, Donnie. You're out of your element. "
More context, he said this on June 19th, the day Juneteenth is celebrated across America.
It's a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in America.
He obviously doesn't want any holidays related to black people to be celebrated.
Is that in project 2025 ? I dont remember but they are on track for sure.
Get off the golf course yourself then you orange turd
He sucks at it too apparently
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This isn't entirely true - someone calculated that, on a good year, a peasant could only work 150 days a year towards the rent of their own farmland. Then they have to actually work that land, take care of their animals, and manually do basically every industrial process we take for granted to get food in their belly. They didn't work 150 days a year then go off with a cheque that will sort them out for the rest of the year.
OPINION PIECE no reasearch to backup clames either, boot locker and calibrator of your oppressors back then you had community and town to also help under “rugged individual” facasium capitalismylur forced into a schedule that disbands family and community.
wasn't this confirmed false?
It absolutely is false and it's very misleading. Living as a peasant would suck complete ass.
Yeah, sure, good luck only working 150 days, or even taking a whole day off, when you're supposed to tend to farmland and animals. That's like having a holiday from being a parent
And? They also had communal+generational help with that.
There was bad stuff too, but we are getting fucked here
Assuming communal farming, you just rotate who works each day.
Ok bootlicker defender of your oppressors
Funny, I didn't know calling out bullshit was the same as "defending my oppressors". I'd love if you could point out the kind of crazy mental gymnastics needed for that
Thinly veiled attempt to get rid of juneteenth. So just the usual rightwing racism.
Happens in Germany too right now. People really need to find back to Unions and take more Power over their rights, before they just Cut it off
Same in Denmark. This is our first year without "Store Bededag" (single day holiday), which our useless fucking government decided to remove, as part of their war-consent-manufacturing.
Since both heads of state were heavily "sponsored" by blackrock et al., similiar policies are to be expected.
Happening all over the globe. The capitalist hegemony is getting scared because their system is collapsing in on itself and, through the imperial boomerang, are beginning to employ practices only performed abroad on the interior in order to maintain their power. The US is just far ahead of the curve due to its lack of a functioning political leftwing keeping things in check.
Now is most certainly the time for people to unionize and start relearning why unions formed in the first place: so workers can band together to exert their political will and take ownership over their workplace from a parasitic class that has only ever existed to exploit our labor.
Nah F that, most Americans barley get any paid time off if any. If anything we need MORE.
Yeah, it's hilarious to hear "workers want less" when what they really mean is less forced unpaid time off, obviously if they want money they'd want to work. I'm sure those people would prefer paid time off to having to work.
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Why do we use the fall of civilization period known as the middle ages as a standard? Most of human history was hunter-gatherers. One of the better moments was during the age of Rome.
As a Dane, I have always been fucking shocked at the slave-like working conditions Americans work under. They barely get any time off as it is. What do you mean too many holidays?
The worst part is... If you've ever had the pleasure of working with an American company you'll notice just how unproductive they are.
Obviously the two are closely connected, but it's always fascinating to me
Yeah there's that myth that if you make people work more hours more work will be done. It all makes sense on the spreadsheet!
Reality is the workers are human, humans get tired and you aren't getting more work out of anyone by making them work more hours. You're just making someone be at a place longer because you can.
Its basic math. A woman needs 9 months for a pregnancy, surely two women would only need 4.5 months.
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Translation: we shouldn’t give black people in america a federal holiday because i am a racist and demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.
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maybe there are too many non-working presidents right now?
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“The workers don’t want it”. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.
Workers. Hate. Paid. Holidays.
We've been saying it for years, but nobody listens. The liberal nanny state keeps forcing me to stay home, spend time with my family, or even go on vacation, when all I really want to do is stare at spreadsheets for another eight hours.
Enough is enough!
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This guy LITERALLY raped a 13 year old back in the day, and only golfs.
And then he went golfing. True story.
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Meanwhile the US have the fewest paid leave days of any country on the planet (source).
Ah yes. The obligatory racist whinging on Juneteenth. Fat lazy bastard who doesn't get to work before 11 am because he requires "executive time" (tv time).
Technically, there is no law requiring a company to provide PTO or close on Holidays. Its up to the company, not this stupid bastard.
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He says on the holiday dedicated to the freeing of the slaves. It’s no coincidence this the one he complains about.
I hate paid time off. It’s one of the greatest crimes of modern life. I think I’ll campaign to have my union dismantled and my pay cut in half because the current model is clearly ripping off my employer.
Keep in mind that the guy complaining about PTO hasn’t worked a day in his life.
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Biggest problem with non-working "holidays" is that they only apply to certain more privileged people who also get paid to not work. Everyone else either sits at home unpaid for the day, or has to work (most often without any additional compensation) to support those who do get the paid day off.
It’s not actually a privilege to have paid time off and paid holidays, it’s the norm across the developed world. United States is just creepy
"the workers don't want it"
The fuck we don't
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Kind of telling to be complaining about this on a day which celebrates the end of slavery.
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