A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are correct but you have to survive not being paid long enough to win the court case. Sometimes even when people know their rights they are living paycheck to paycheck and cannot risk being fired.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Did you just say you would rather die than not get paid?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For some families, that's the reality, not being paid means no housing, no food, no medications. For people who have dangerous debt, not having available money could be a threat to their life.

Obviously your life is priceless, but we've developed a system where you simply can't live without money, and put people in circumstances where the money in their hand now is worthy more to their survival today than twice as much money in their hand tomorrow.

I'm just grateful that's not my situation.