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In Germany we say "Arbeitnehmerrechte" and I think that's beautiful (swg-empire.de)
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[โ€“] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This seems like there's more going on than what either you or Scrubbles are seeing.

[โ€“] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

I think it's part of what I've seen called the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" effect. There's a certain group of poor folk who have been convinced that, any day now, they're going to come into wealth (through some nebulous means and no real action of their own), and so act like they are already part of the wealthy class. Even going so far as voting for benefits for the wealthy and against their own interests, including voting for the destruction of the very social programs that support them.

Just an assumption on my part, but I think you would find a correlation between political affiliation and treatment of service industry staff when it comes to lower income people.