Taalnazi

u/Taalnazi@lemmy.world
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I did already write a manifesto, actually. I think it was written before Trump, but it outlined some non-negotiable demands and some negotiable ones, though I also added a lot more that seem ridiculous. Because a good way to negotiate is to give ridiculous demands so the other will be more inclined to agree to the less ridiculous (which was what you ideally wanted anyways)

The Netherlands has a solution to that free-rider problem. You can "opt out" of healthcare, but if you do so, you must pay every month to a fund for yourself; and if you get injured, all costs are on you, unreimbursed. If it's empty, your problem.

So in practice, you're still required to be covered, but if you "opt out", all costs are on you. And you also will get lower priority in treatment compared to others that are normally covered. Last I recall there are very few people that do so.

I'd prefer lynching the fossil billionnaires, restoring order by removing surveillance oligarchs from life, and fighting politicians that don't do shit to stop global warming. All three are enemies of the proletariat.

It does, in the Netherlands (my country), we have universal private healthcare.

We used to have universal public/singlepayer, but decades of liberal governance caused it to be privatised.

on A reminder · c/workreform · 1 pts · 12d

In the Netherlands you get the unemployment support depending on how long you worked. So if you worked at least 108 hours in year 1, you get 3 months. By about 8 years+ it's 2 years.

Unfortunately though the conservative liberal party wants to abolish that and make even more people suffer than Covid already did.

But yeah, assuming the minimum, it'd be about 1.5 years for me, with maximum maybe about 3 years.

on Question: what is Europe · c/europe · 6 pts · 50d

As a EU citizen, if I wanted to refer to that, I'd just say EU & Schengen. That about conveys the same countries anyways.

When I mean Europe, I mean the area delineated by the Caspian and Black Seas, the Ural mountains and its same-named river on one side, the Northern and Atlantic Seas on two others, and the end of the Mediterranean on the south.

And you think they didn't pay either?

View what they ask as something positive instead. You also learn from them.

Lectures aren't there to just sit and listen. They're there to listen and talk together, discussing the content. To me, that's better than a class full of yea-nodders. I want people that question. People that learn. Not people that just repeat.