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CaptainStrong posted...

-5,000,000. America is a shithole country. It has the potential to be the best country on Earth, but it pisses it all away.

I agree with that. As a nation, we do not take care of our people in the way that we should. We have the world's worst drug addiction problem, homelessness etc

The U.S. is the ONLY country in the Americas without a national paid parental leave benefit.

Americans also work more hours than their counterparts in other nations. At least 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week; the U.S. does not.

According to statistics, in the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week.

Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers.

According to the latest data, the average productivity per American worker has increased 400% since 1950. One way to look at that is that it should only take one-quarter the work hours, or 11 hours per week, to afford the same standard of living as a worker in 1950 (or our standard of living should be 4 times higher). Is that the case? Obviously not. Someone is profiting, its just not the average American worker.

There is not a federal law requiring paid sick days in the United States.

The U.S. remains the only industrialized country in the world that has no legally mandated annual leave.

In every country included except Canada and Japan (and the U.S., which averages 13 days/per year), workers get at least 20 paid vacation days. In France and Finland, they get 30 an entire month off, paid, every year.

The decline of the union has led to less paid time off and other leave benefits.

Our legislative branch of the government (on both sides of the aisle) has been bought and as a result, has shied away from passing laws that protect workers that every other industrialized nation has passed.

What's wrong with this picture people?
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