you've identified what is really important. the issue in america isn't the salary it is the working conditions. in france they used to use a term "precarite" so basically how "precarious" your situation was. in america there is too little job security for normal workers and too many ways shitty jealous coworkers, middle managers, and mba asshole execs can fuck you over.  in my opinion the usa needs a system where a business can fire anyone at anytime for any reason, but the worker fired will get 75% salary ui for like a year. this would apply after working somewhere for x amount of time and increase for years served. employers would like this and so would workers. if my boss wants to fire me fine i don't want to be here either but he shouldn't be able to make me poor and homeless. we can fix that. in exchange businesses get total control over staffing levels which they would value tremendously. further this cost of firing people would force them to cut shitty people earlier and carry less dead-weight in general.
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