Imagine you have cancer and you're working through it on your spouse's Disney healthcare, but you also need to work full-time to make ends meet. You might be forced to quit your job or only do part-time hours so that you can continue on the better health insurance. Forcing people into this sort of financial dilemma is... well, I think the most accurate term is "evil."
As they said in the article, this affects lower income employees more. If you're a high income employee at Disney, maybe you don't need your spouse to work. So, this will disproportionately remove lower income people from their insurance, while higher income people receive twice the healthcare benefits. This makes very little sense.
This is more evidence that the very concept of tying workplace to healthcare is madness. In the end, universal healthcare is just the optimal solution.
Why don't we already have universal, single-payer healthcare? Let's not forget that it's the corporations and ultra-wealthy people who have the most sway in our government. Look, here's Disney bitching and moaning about how awful and expensive it is to offer adequate healthcare for their employees. So obviously, you'd think they should just support universal healthcare and be done with all of this healthcare expense.
But the truth is that they don't want to. They want to tie healthcare to the company because smaller companies often have worse healthcare packages because they have less negotiating power, and this is a way of enslaving people. Tying them to one company so that they can never leave. But also, make it as cheap as possible in the meantime. Reduce benefits just enough so that they constantly suffer but can't afford to leave. They want to have it both ways. Employees not getting enough benefits as well as getting enough benefits that they can't afford to leave.
Per depressing non fiction novel "dying of whiteness", many poor white people don't want universal programs like health care because they don't want those people to have access. They would rather suffer and die themselves.
Many people, I'd guess like a third, are just assholes.
Meanwhile I just got a job at Costco and in a couple months I'll be able to get my own health plan and put my family on it, which includes family planning (if I ever need it) and other virtual doctor visits entirely for free.
Tbh I've only been working there a couple weeks but even in just that short amount of time it already feels like the best company I've ever worked for. Even though it's constantly busy I'm still kind of excited to go into work.
Idk why this turned into a rant. It's late and I'm kinda high right now just vibing.
If you work for them and are against this in anyway, you support them by continuing to work for them. Things won't get better until people grow up and realize the corporations are not on their side.
So now that their spouse has lost healthcare they should quit and lose their healthcare and their income too. That will show the multi-billion dollar company!!!
Seriously? Nobody is supporting this just by continuing to work for them. Different departments of Disney are members of different unions for starters.
It's a new form of Accelerationism they're pushing. Every ally and sympathizer must suffer just as much as I have, or else they're not a true ally.
Case in point, these same losers saw an article interviewing several EA employees about the Saudi acquisition, where lower level employees talk about how awful the Saudi regime is, and said "yeah but you continue to work there, why don't you just quit? Stop fraternizing with the enemy."
Blind vengeance against corporations matters more to them than people taking care of themselves. It's a suicide pact. Support for the working class is conditional, a rhetorical game played by terminally online dweebs who demand you prove your loyalty by becoming destitute, sick, and desperate. They hope they can drive you to become the next Luigi.
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Several thoughts.
Why don't we already have universal, single-payer healthcare? Let's not forget that it's the corporations and ultra-wealthy people who have the most sway in our government. Look, here's Disney bitching and moaning about how awful and expensive it is to offer adequate healthcare for their employees. So obviously, you'd think they should just support universal healthcare and be done with all of this healthcare expense.
But the truth is that they don't want to. They want to tie healthcare to the company because smaller companies often have worse healthcare packages because they have less negotiating power, and this is a way of enslaving people. Tying them to one company so that they can never leave. But also, make it as cheap as possible in the meantime. Reduce benefits just enough so that they constantly suffer but can't afford to leave. They want to have it both ways. Employees not getting enough benefits as well as getting enough benefits that they can't afford to leave.
This is entirely inhumane.
Per depressing non fiction novel "dying of whiteness", many poor white people don't want universal programs like health care because they don't want those people to have access. They would rather suffer and die themselves.
Many people, I'd guess like a third, are just assholes.
This is shitty, but also in any functional country, healthcare is not tied to employment
we need am army of Luigi
I can hear DKM performing this in my head as I read it.
My employer just forced everyone to submit documents to a third party company to prove dependants were eligble to be on our insurance.
If you didn't provide birth certificates, marriage certificates, and financial records then your dependants would be removed from coverage.
Fucking bullshit.
Meanwhile I just got a job at Costco and in a couple months I'll be able to get my own health plan and put my family on it, which includes family planning (if I ever need it) and other virtual doctor visits entirely for free.
Tbh I've only been working there a couple weeks but even in just that short amount of time it already feels like the best company I've ever worked for. Even though it's constantly busy I'm still kind of excited to go into work.
Idk why this turned into a rant. It's late and I'm kinda high right now just vibing.
If you work for them and are against this in anyway, you support them by continuing to work for them. Things won't get better until people grow up and realize the corporations are not on their side.
So now that their spouse has lost healthcare they should quit and lose their healthcare and their income too. That will show the multi-billion dollar company!!!
Seriously? Nobody is supporting this just by continuing to work for them. Different departments of Disney are members of different unions for starters.
It's a new form of Accelerationism they're pushing. Every ally and sympathizer must suffer just as much as I have, or else they're not a true ally.
Case in point, these same losers saw an article interviewing several EA employees about the Saudi acquisition, where lower level employees talk about how awful the Saudi regime is, and said "yeah but you continue to work there, why don't you just quit? Stop fraternizing with the enemy."
Blind vengeance against corporations matters more to them than people taking care of themselves. It's a suicide pact. Support for the working class is conditional, a rhetorical game played by terminally online dweebs who demand you prove your loyalty by becoming destitute, sick, and desperate. They hope they can drive you to become the next Luigi.
Your inaction is supporting them. That's what they want.
I suppose the truth is too scary, you better downvote this to feel better about being part of the problem.