Re:Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data from Maternal Mortality Re...
by yamtaddle on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:05PM
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> Do we really want to become that poor? Is equality (in everyone being poor) a social goal?
About the only thing I'd be unhappy about trading with Europe, as far as income plus services and worker standards (time off, healthcare, retirement, primary-university education, child care, et c.) goes, is their housing situation.
Of course, ours is completely fucked too and some of us are only doing better because wages are more uneven here.
Like, if we could actually get all their social services and other perks in exchange, I'd be OK with a big pay cut. I mostly need this much money here to make up for not having those things, or for the ones provided being terrible and having to be supplemented or replaced out of pocket.
About the only thing I'd be unhappy about trading with Europe, as far as income plus services and worker standards (time off, healthcare, retirement, primary-university education, child care, et c.) goes, is their housing situation.
Of course, ours is completely fucked too and some of us are only doing better because wages are more uneven here.
Like, if we could actually get all their social services and other perks in exchange, I'd be OK with a big pay cut. I mostly need this much money here to make up for not having those things, or for the ones provided being terrible and having to be supplemented or replaced out of pocket.