> If you look at recent statistics, German workers are at the top of sick days used, twice as much sick days than the EU average, which is an insane difference. So what's going on? Is there a health crisis in Germany causing Germans to be twice as sick as their neighbors? Or are they twice as likely to cheat the system? Or a bit of both?
Both are obviously factors, but there is also another category, people who are legitimately stressed to a degree that affects their health but who are forced to continue working in other jurisdictions due to the lack of employee protections.
All labour is exploited - the degree to which it is is limited by law in each country. Germany just allows less severe exploitation than Ireland or Austria or - obviously - the United States.
>All labour is exploited - the degree to which it is is limited by law in each country.
That's very reductionist to say that ALL labor is exploited, least of all privileged well paid white collar jobs in rich western countries, and undermines the actual labor exploitation going on out there.
Sure, you might consider yourself exploited with a measly 100k+/year wage because your CEO makes over 200x that, but the majority of the population will disagree and have no sympathy on that being remotely resembling exploitation.
> That's very reductionist to say that ALL labor is exploited, least of all privileged well paid white collar jobs in rich western countries, and undermines the actual labor exploitation going on out there.
All labour is exploited, even the most pampered employees. That's why it's important that even those most well-paid and well-treated employees lend their support to others through supporting unions and the global labour movement.
> Sure, you might consider yourself exploited with a measly 100k+/year wage because your CEO makes over 200x that, but the majority of the population will disagree and have no sympathy on that being remotely resembling exploitation.
Divide and conquer has been the oppressors' tactic of choice for millennia. The tried-and-tested counter is class solidarity. Don't fool yourself into thinking you aren't working class just because your wages are higher than others.
>All labour is exploited, even the most pampered employees
Look up what exploitation is.
>That's why it's important that even those most well-paid and well-treated employees lend their support to others through supporting unions and the global labour movement.
Both are obviously factors, but there is also another category, people who are legitimately stressed to a degree that affects their health but who are forced to continue working in other jurisdictions due to the lack of employee protections.
All labour is exploited - the degree to which it is is limited by law in each country. Germany just allows less severe exploitation than Ireland or Austria or - obviously - the United States.