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by heresie-dabord
1486 days ago
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> an enormous [...] financial illiteracy I suspect you're right that people don't care enough to make this a major political matter. But isn't financial illiteracy a common problem among workers and consumers throughout the world? In some countries, a worker has only a small amount of vacation, no sick leave, no worker organisation, a wretched minimum wage, high rental cost, and no hope of owning a home to escape the threat of eviction. There are places where health care is available only through an employer and the cost of health treatment can bankrupt workers and their families. There are places where people pay taxes but infrastructure is not maintained and has become unsafe. The water may not be safe to drink and the electricity grid may be fragile but tax payers bear the exorbitant cost of for-profit utilities. There are inexpensive talk-and-text plans in Canada. A generous cellular plan may still be a luxury for most people. |
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Bruh I live in a so-called third world country and no such restricted thing exists.
Can also drink the water juuuuuust fine.
Electricity grid is more an affect of extreme tropical weather. The Americans come here and point at messes of coils of wire on every pole - like yeah that's how we make it repaired fast when a tropical storm hits.
Health care is immediately available for less than a benjamin. If a Canadian doctor puts me on a waiting list on a visit back, I tell him sorry gonna do it somewhere else don't bother making another appointment.