Americans Are Sharing The "Normal, Everyday" Aspects About The US That Are Actually Dystopian, And I Can't Believe We Tolerate Some Of These : aboringdystopia

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Number 1, been there. Got called to the principal's office and strongly encouraged to start again when I was having garbage thrown at me. Why did I stop? The weird jingoism that came over the US after 9/11 creeped me out. Guess who was vindicated when the WMDs were never found and it took a different president sending SpecOps into a different country to finally kill bin Laden.

[+] awwwyissss@lemm.ee -12 points 1 month ago

AmericaBAD, OK?!?

[+] invertedspear@lemm.ee -34 points 1 month ago

Not getting paid maternity/paternity leave unless you work in very specific sectors of the federal government.

Why does this complaint prevail? I get that not all companies offer parental leave, and it’s not government supported like if some other countries, but I have had full-time employment since 2000 and every company I’ve been at offered several (4-12) weeks of maternity leave and at least a week of paternity. Since 2018 or so every company has also started offering more, 2-4 weeks, paternity. And I live in a state that kind of sucks when it comes to worker’s rights.

Either my experience is rather rare, or this complaint is overblown, or people mean something different when they talk about parental leave such as a government sponsored program. Or is there something else I’m not considering?

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[+] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee -38 points 1 month ago

6."Dental work is astronomical, even with insurance. Yeah, cleanings are free, but if you ever need anything more than a filling, it's just not something that can be budgeted for. Due to having a now-overcome addiction, my husband needs pretty much all of his teeth removed and replaced, but we barely live paycheck-to-paycheck as it is. I hate that he has to live like this and that people see him with missing teeth. He did the hard work quitting his addiction, but his confidence is basically nonexistent now."

wow, what a dystopia.

i live in a country with quality and affordable medical care and something like that would not be free as well here.

good on him for overcoming his addiction, but this is consequence of his own action, not a dystopia.

[-] sparkle@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Drug addiction is a disorder most often caused by some sort of pressure to do drugs. It's almost never a path someone chooses to take just because. And, obviously, it takes extremely long and an extremely good set of circumstances to escape, you can't just choose not to have a drug addiction suddenly. "Having a drug addiction some time in the past is his fault so it's not dystopic that he can't get basic healthcare" is an extremely ignorant take.

Should diabetes treatment not be accessible to all because a lot of diabetes is partially caused by lifestyle either? Or rather, is your argument that in a capitalist world – which can't exist without an underclass and people too poor to afford many basic necessities – it's fine that people who can't afford healthcare just get fucked and rack up a bunch of debt from the hospital and (in the case of the US) can't get treatment from doctors/specialists for anything that isn't immediately life-threatening? It's okay for there to be a class of humans "undeserving" of healthcare at all?

I just want to gauge the line for how much healthcare inaccessibility/insecurity there needs to be, or who can be excluded, for you to accept that it's immoral and causes unnecessary human suffering and misery.

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