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British cuisine is like... (i.redd.it)
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Americans have been sold and eat up the idea that instant gratification beats the effort needed to realize something greater.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In my defense, everything I worked for in the first 18 years of my life fell apart in the next two, so I've just kind of given up on anything that isn't now or in the very near future.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    "Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life

    The most interesting people I know Didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives

    Some of The Most Interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't"

    -Sunscreen

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    No no you see, Americans work* so much, they don’t have time to first learn and then practise to cook healthy meals at home. Hence fast food chains!!

    *work American style, as in staying at work long hours but also spend about 60% of their work day chatting with co workers, or on the phone, going on personal, non-work related errands, browsing the internet, selecting, getting, eating, and ridding their bowels of food.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Try getting a blue collar job, and tell me again how the majority of American workers are slacking. Must be nice over there in your "office job," that clearly can be done working at home.

    Also I don't know about other office jobs, but in IT, it was feast or famine. When there was work to be done, we worked 100 hour weeks, but when we finally managed to put out all the fires, yeah we would spend weeks at a time working on side projects, not slacking off.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    i just learned (on Lemmy) that Americans basically don't get raises annually. 1 or 2% raise apparently is the burn. so 40% work in a work day sounds way too much for me. good job, American workers. those fuckers don't deserve your labor even at 40%. keep slacking, i say.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    American workers. those fuckers don't deserve your labor even at 40%. keep slacking, i say.

    I wish. That person has never seen what blue collar workers go through. In food service for example, and I literally cannot stress this enough, YOU WILL NOT GET A BREAK. Their favorite phrase is, "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean." This is because there will be exactly one chair in the manager's office, so that no one is allowed to sit for their entire shift, except the manager.

    They get pissy if you ask for your federally required 15 minute break or your 30 minute lunch. This is doubly true for wait staff or delivery drivers. In fact I have been told by multiple bosses at delivery jobs that if I try to take a break at the store, I will be fired.

    The rule of thumb over here seems to be, "the less you are paid, the more you WILL work."

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    every time i hear anything about the US it becomes even more unbelievable that there are no guillotines in the streets "just in case".

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It's because the ruling class created the biggest, most successful gang of slave hunters in human history, armed them to the teeth, and gave them immunity from prosecution. Anyone that does try to wrest some power back from the ruling class, historically, gets shot.

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