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Ok, how do I, as an individual, do that?

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I would recommend you start by joining the Industrial Workers of the World and paying monthly dues to empower the union to fight the fight necessary. https://www.iww.org/membership/

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There is a difference in interests at work between employees and employers. Even if someone doesn’t own the business, if they have real hiring and firing power over other workers then they count as an employer to us.

I have two direct reports at work, so it seems like they consider me an employer, and I’m not eligible to join.

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yep, capitalist scum

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I’m in a union here in Germany. Why am I supposed to pay up for the folks in the US who still act against their interests and refuse to unionize or vote for worker’s rights?

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By posting memes on Lemmy to piss off Americans, so they start to take formative action after they research the memes context and realise they don’t have free health care, cheap/free post secondary education, and mandatory holidays like the EU bros.

Tldr: Post them memes buddy!

Edit: guys… this is c/memes. Y’all are taking this way too literally lmao. Lighten up a bit ffs.

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Free healthcare does not exist. Someone will pay the bill. The bill may not be ridiculously inflated but someone pays.

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Lol, the bill is literally a piece of paper backed by other pieces of paper that the richest people on the planet demand have value because they choose who has the paper they hand out.

What you mean to say is, the labor must be done, and it is. The part you refuse to accept is the laborers must have a sustainable life and they don’t.

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I’m not saying you’re wrong but you are being pedantic: aka the worst kind of right.

It’s free in the same sense that a free school lunch is free: the exchange of money happened long before/after the actual goods or services get to the person who needs it

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No shit, literally no one actually thinks this when they say “free healthcare” what they mean is that it’s free for the individual. As in, you don’t have to deplete your life savings because you had an injury.

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I guess what Europeans mean by free healthcare is healthcare that doesn’t structurally fuck over the poor, and makes what’s left of the middle class poor as soon as they have a bit of bad luck regarding their health.

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That’s not much of an argument when you consider that places like the US still spend just as much money with Healthcare, without providing free services to the population.

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We are very aware of the shittiness of our labor laws

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Motivation to even want to have some solidarity instead of smugness is the first step honey.

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