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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
They're not hiring 40-year-old people with degrees in sociology and education. They don't like "over-qualified" employees--because those leave as soon as they find something better.
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This.
Also, some people (*cough* Ana! *cough*) have health problems that absolutely
require regular health care. I don't have the privilege to just live on $10 of baked beans for a week -- without modern health care, I would be permanently confined to bed
for life.
If my current employer decided to re-negotiate our contracts, I would
have to sign whatever they tell me... or face being permanently crippled and never leaving my bedroom again. Yeah, that's a great choice, and I'm going to think long and hard over my moral obligation to my employer to put me over the barrel with a "morality clause" or similar unethical demands over my moral obligation to
myself.
(Ask me how I feel about American health care... in the HARDENED DEBATERS forum.
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And, oh yeah, I wouldn't be able to work at McDonald's anyway BECAUSE of said health condition.
So, yeah, privilege.
Everybody has some; not everyone has noticed it before. Being able to survive on $10 of baked beans and work a minimum-wage hard-labor job? That's privilege, of a kind. People with chronic health care problems, very young children, very old parents, etc. may not have that privilege.