Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "Texas bill strikes down labor laws granting workers breaks" video.

Evil is the point. It is something they can do to show their power over the poor people this will impact. People in high paying jobs already can take breaks and get water when they want. I moved to Germany about 8 years ago to do a PhD and have decided to stay. I have a hard time even recognizing some of the stuff in the USA anymore. It just seems to be evil. Cruel for just the point of being cruel.
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@TDesil5000 Germans and other Europeans like the lives that those regulations give them. They like knowing that if they get sick they won't lose their job, that healthcare won't bankrupt that. They like knowing that they get vacation time and that companies can't prevent you from using it. They like that they are not forced to work more hours just because the management at the company did a poor job of managing tasks.
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If they didn't want to have separate laws for each city they could have just made a law that every 4 hours (every 1 hour would be better) you can take a break for water and to get out of the heat if the temperature is about XXXF. They did not do that. They just made it so companies did not have to allow any breaks at all. This is just evil for the point of being evil.
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@KilljoyTDA The USA IS A third world country. It is built so that the wealthy do well and everyone else gets screwed. There is even a push to take away free school meals from poor kids because being hungry will get them to try harder and their parents would work harder so they are not hungry. That is just cruelty for the sake of cruelty and won't improve anything.
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@TDesil5000 I don't believe this is actually true. I am American and most of the Americans I know hate our current system. They just don't see how to change it. The USA has made it VERY hard to actually establish unions and very easy to undermine them. Even though there are laws to prevent companies from stopping unionization they are rarely enforced.
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What business can't allow workers a 10 minute break every 4 hours to get water? What possible type of business could that be. This is just evil for the sake of being evil. Basic human rights should be written into the law and if your business can't operate without violating those rights you don't have a viable business.
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