We are getting to a fundamental dissonance between different models of work engagement, and the cost (monetary and environment) of essential services that citizens need to rely on.
Workers say 'I need to be able to choose when I work, and for how infrequently'.
Government says: 'we will mandate your employee to pay for your benefits'.
Workers say: 'I need to be able to afford essential services, like health care'.
Government says: we will either make your employee pay for it, or we will tax the whole country to fund it.
Workers say: I would like to get college education that promises, well paying jobs, and makes myself competitive with, (including, but not limited to) foreign-educated workforce.
Government says: We will make tax the whole country to fund it
Workers say: I would like to sustain family with children, on one salary.
Government says: Nope, but will tax the whole country and fund free child care, for working parents (that's Australia).
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What's not present in these question/answers -- are solutions that make
a) Work engagement simpler, and less litigious
b) The health care cheaper
c) The cost of education cheaper
This is
Instead, US is marching along to keep its burden of legalized racketeering through groundless lawsuits.
Instead, the US is keeping its out of control health care costs (or apply price controls, in the hope that quality will not suffer).
Instead, the US is keeping its out of control college education cost....
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It just seems that we have tilted way from figuring out how to make things cheaper through fair competition and through advances in technology.
Workers say 'I need to be able to choose when I work, and for how infrequently'.
Government says: 'we will mandate your employee to pay for your benefits'.
Workers say: 'I need to be able to afford essential services, like health care'. Government says: we will either make your employee pay for it, or we will tax the whole country to fund it.
Workers say: I would like to get college education that promises, well paying jobs, and makes myself competitive with, (including, but not limited to) foreign-educated workforce.
Government says: We will make tax the whole country to fund it
Workers say: I would like to sustain family with children, on one salary.
Government says: Nope, but will tax the whole country and fund free child care, for working parents (that's Australia).
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What's not present in these question/answers -- are solutions that make
a) Work engagement simpler, and less litigious b) The health care cheaper c) The cost of education cheaper
This is
Instead, US is marching along to keep its burden of legalized racketeering through groundless lawsuits.
Instead, the US is keeping its out of control health care costs (or apply price controls, in the hope that quality will not suffer).
Instead, the US is keeping its out of control college education cost....
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It just seems that we have tilted way from figuring out how to make things cheaper through fair competition and through advances in technology.