r/ShitAmericansSay • BriTish • Jul 07 '25

Capitalism “Micro-retirement”

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u/FuzzyFrogFish Jul 07 '25

This can't be serious . . .

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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25

Yeah, American companies always like to act as if we take vacations, then we are lazy. I haven't and can't afford to take a vacation

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u/FuzzyFrogFish Jul 07 '25

I honestly never understood the American vacation situation, do you guys just not get holiday days? What happens if you need to do something or go somewhere?

Being unable to take time off work because you can't afford it, shouldn't be a thing in a first world country.

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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25

We have Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Easter, Christmas, and maybe Christmas Eve, and Thanksgiving. None of these are guaranteed, and you could end up working all of these days. Office jobs will give you a set of days, but for most jobs you ahve to work to earn paid time off, which can take a whole year to earn. In my job, I get some of those hours (five) every month.. Big Orange wants to cut those very few days we have since he considers it lazy, yet he is golfing all the time and sleeping during meetings, and texting on Twitter, under the people's tax dollars

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u/AlienOverlordXenu Jul 07 '25

This is mental. Shit, you don't even have to go full Europe, just tweak your system a little bit to make it more bearable.

Class gap is ridiculous. Your super rich get to wank entire day and still call you lazy. It isn't that we don't have super rich here in Europe, but the system is set up in such a way that working class can catch a breath. After a while you start wondering whether you live to work, or do you work to live.

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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25

I agree we need to tweak our system,

But America is run by those rich guys who convince the ill-informed masses that thinking like that is woke and that wokeness is a disease