Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
by ip26 on Saturday October 05, 2019 @03:02PM
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Putting entire communities or indeed entire regions on welfare for the rest of their life smacks of unintended consequences later on.
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Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
by thephyber on Saturday October 05, 2019 @03:47PM
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It's already happened. Disability insurance is the de facto implementation of this.
It leads to judges corrupting their own judgement to allow workers who probably aren't disabled to get onto the disability roles, it's a ratchet where once on permanent disability, an employee can no longer legally get a job again, it's almost certainly a downsizing in wages and quality of life expectations, and it leads to depression, higher suicide rates, and high rates of opioid abuse.