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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by komali2 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @04:37PM (#19030031)
Fuck it pisses me off how the conversation in America somehow shifted to make everything the fault of the poor.

Service disrupted because bus driver/garbage collector / teacher/hotel employee strike? How dare those selfish underpaid and overworked peasants stand up for reasonable hours! They should consider themselves lucky they have a job at all! (It should be: how dare the corporations or federal agencies pay so little to their employees that their only recourse was to risk their livelihood by walking off the job)

How about that case where the teacher used her health insurance to pay for an impoverished student's pills? She committed insurance fraud, she's just raising rates for everyone else! (Never mind that rates will be as high as an insurance company can legally get away with in this insane profit driven healthcare industry)

Or the housing crisis. Stupid proletariat, taking loans they knew they couldn't afford! Why didn't they educate themselves? (Instead of 1. Why weren't banks doing due diligence 2. Why were banks allowed to not do due diligence 3. Why the fuck don't they teach us basic financial skills in elementary school?)

Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by dzonga on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:07PM (#19030782)
capitalists!! leeching as usual!! blame the poor, is the mantra in the US. & the Illusion of convincing the poor that they can join the rich capitalist. r > g
Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by dang on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:14PM (#19031671)
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html