Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic
Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic
Amidst high inflation and socioeconomic turmoil, Americans just want to sleep.
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"Economic fatigue" nice newspeak for being piss-poor as a consequence of legislative failure to curtail wage theft over the past few decades.
Or legislative success in suppressing organized labor.
Union busting Biden. Fucking shame!
OMG. Can we stop circle jerking about something that didn't happen? I'm just gonna paste my last comment about this because I don't have the energy..
I'm no fan of Biden (though I did and will vote for him) but that's not what happened. He did not bust the unions, the 12 unions still exist. He broke a strike, which is the intended purpose of the Railway Labor Act of 1926.
The law Biden put before congress to force a resolution to the three year negotiation deadlock would have guaranteed the workers 7 days of sick leave per year (they wanted 15). It passed the House but the Senate knocked it down to 1 day, with a 14% immediate pay increase and an additional 25% over the next five years.
Biden continued negotiate for the unions to get the sick days. They don't all have them yet, but at this point 61% of the workers do have 4 short notice paid sick days with the option to trade three personal days for an additional 3 short notice sick days. Negotiations are still happening, the Biden administration is still part of them.
The Ohio derailment disaster was not a result of worker error (or lack of sick days) but lack of maintenance regulations, which was not something that was being negotiated at that time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute
Beau of the Fifth Column, Let's Talk About Biden, the Rails and Sick days... Youtube link
The fucking goddamn ghouls in the Senate think people get sick ONCE a year? Or are they too fucking greedy and think "my stocks might lose value if those companies have to pay workers when they're not working! Unacceptable!!"
I have a pretty poor view of our fellow citizens, but to be "represented" by that kind of disgusting human? It's laughable to consider them representing anything but wealth...
The fucking goddamn ghouls in the Senate [with unlimited paid sick leave that they use a lot because they are elderly and infirm] think people get sick ONCE a year?
Why would they curtail it when the voters show their support for it every two years without fail?
Hey I don't support it! I just voted for Democrats to prevent Trump doing fascist things like genocide. I've been laying on that pressure to push them further left by posting online, or something. If they don't listen, I'll primary them out... unless of course they know better than us and tweak the primaries a little.
I mean yeah I'll keep voting for the same people, but they should know I'm very upset.
I don't like that that feels so relatable.
Although I also say loudly and to anyone who will listen in real life that I wish to chop the heads off of billionaires and burn all of their headquarters to the ground. Hopefully, they resonate with that and we can get this ball rolling.