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A necessary reminder that our work/life structure is flawed (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/whitepeopletwitter

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

This such a huge point that no one in my life besides my fiance and I seem to harp on. Health insurance being tied directly to your employment is fucking dystopian. It absolutely crushes your ability to protest, strike, fight for rights against your employer, etc. because that can jeopardize your access to healthcare. It makes it so you can't even risk leaving a bad situation at work because they give you healthcare and if the grass isn't greener at some new job or a different lifestyle doesn't work out...then there's no guarantee you can get your job back and get healthcare from them.

It's an abusive relationship for them to hold your well-being over your head and restrict what you can do in life so much.

Remember when everyone was getting paid at the start of COVID to not be at work?? Biggest protests in my life happened all over the country for BLM.