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The Union you speak of sounds corrupt to say the least. That needs a serious clean up because it's supposed to protect the workers and all workers so they get the pay they're supposed to. But it's not a given you're given a job as well.

Everyone knows crime pays if you don't get caught.

If you struggle bad, you struggle bad and can't help it. I'm at a position in life where I can do fuck all, I'm worth shit atm. Just found out last therapist session it's anxiety and depression (knew that) coupled with PTSD (news to me, I didn't think it was that bad but apparently it is). I can't work due to energy levels being so low there's days where I wonder if I can even pick up the frying pan safely and make my own food without setting the house on fire or injure myself. It's that bad due to adrenalin being pumped constantly from the PTSD which goes out on my cortisol, and when that's drained not only am I more prone to getting the flu every other week (like I do) I'm also so drained of energy I can't function properly. And the serious sleep issues doesn't help my case either.

Thanks to help from the state I'm on a program to get me back to work with work practice in a firm that I helped build (we're just starting to get money into the firm now, me and 2 friends runs it and just today we got 4840$ on your firms bank account from clients). I don't get to see these money at all since I can't get paid while I'm on this program, I'm fine with that as it helps me get my life back on track while simultaneously pushing money back into the tax system and making a future for myself. When I'm back to full time work I'll probably make at least four times as much as I do now but unfortunately I mentally and physically can't. When I get back to work I don't mind paying a lot in taxes to give others the chance I have and it'll fast enough be put back into the pool once they get back to work too. Look upon it as investment because without it I'd probably be homeless and going back'n'forth to all kinds of other shit and generally being a dirtperson to society. Sure, people will abuse the system but most won't even though the media say differently. Most people want to feel like they matter and having a steady job and income not dependent on others is a huge factor to that. Those who try to abuse the system will still be put on work related programs etc. and pushed around to find something unless you got a doctors note that you suffer from this or that they won't let it slide. At least not around here, they'll put you on work related programs, school, education and group therapies etc. Prescription drugs is rarely the answer and you need a reform on that too, because the handbook of when to prescribe them is extremely different from the ones they use over here.

Also, I only got high school as well but know quite a bit when it comes to the line of work I'm in (web design, sales department and project management) with a developer with a masters degree in IT and programming on our team and another guy that dropped out of high school in the first week to start working on his own (he's the one that figured me and him should start a firm together since he saw the potential), and I got a knack for people and deals so I've managed to close a couple sales based on that too working with known brand name food chains to private business owners and hospitals. We currently got office spots in a place alongside product designers, architects, photographers and movie producers +++. It's pretty dope.

When I'm out of this shithole I'll make a shitload with my own firm thanks to the help and support of professionals and great colleagues and friends. An opportunity I wouldn't have had elsewhere or could even dream of. I'll agree that I've been really lucky as well though but even if my friends wouldn't be there, and the opportunity of being the co-owner of a firm with equal shares I'd still be working somewhere or going to school while figuring out wtf is wrong with me and work towards what is now my fall back plan of becoming a pre-school teacher. So I'd still have a chance at life.
Most likely, by the way things are going now and the quality of the product we deliver I won't be a poor fuck when I get back in work being my own boss and having therapists and consultants breathing down my neck (but thank God they do, I might have been dead if they didn't and I'm not exaggerating), working about 40-50 hours a week (we aim on 5 days a week, 8 hours a day but deadlines do exist). You know, just living the Nordic Scandinavian dream.

I have been working full time in the past at a daycare (loved it, no Tyson) but I can't keep a full time job right now because I'm severely fucked up in my head. And I'm lucky to have that opportunity due to where I'm from. Sure, your population is a lot higher than we have here but that also means you'll make a lot more in return taxes once it works as it should. It isn't done in a year or two but you'll see the fruits of it soon enough and get more people back in work. There will be more job positions available in the long run since working above a set amount isn't the standard anymore, and bosses and the like won't get so easily away with modern day slavery.

Sucks that you didn't get help for your father and got tough love from the state but it doesn't need to be that way. It SHOULDN'T be that way. Also 40 hours a week, 52 weeks of a year isn't okay. There should be a set minimum wage so that even when you choose the ''shit paid jobs'' it's still good enough to make a decent living when there's laws set in place so it can't go lower than a certain amount either so people will generally go for the most qualified people by default. Corruption may still be an issue but hopefully that'll have repercussions (like they do over here) that could be devastating enough for firms and workplaces to not take that risk since it could mean the end or a serious blow to their empire and end up costing more than they earned during the time it went unnoticed. It only seems unfair to do that now because the system you have are built upon unfair grounds and the rich gets richer while the poor get poorer principle.

I trule hope things change for the better for the US because from the outside I can't do nothing but feel deeply for the majority of you that go through year after year as robots in a system without being looked upon as human beings the majority of the time by the capitalist power structure that further demoralize and hurt your country from the inside.

Don't take me wrong, I love the US and can't wait to visit several states and cities in the future along with its great nature but you best believe I won't go there to get inspired from your way of doing things the next time I got a possible person in front of me that I may or may not hire.

Oh, and the guy I spoke about earlier in this thread with a chronic stomach disease? He's the one that wanted me in on this shit and joined forces with the programmer. Without his extremely expensive meds (in the states he wouldn't be able to afford them) this highly potential of a lucrative firm wouldn't even have been made. But just now we've spat back into the pool quite a bit of money from taxes and used freelancers/designers supplying work from what otherwise would have been impossible without the socialist way of doing things. So even from an economics capitalist standpoint it would foolish not to see the the benefits a system like this gives back for monetary reasons alone.