"I think the culture in the United States of, cut costs aggressively by firing people, is really shitty when everything in our lives from healthcare to food to housing is utterly dependent on our jobs. If this were not the case, I would be on board with the completely callous way of running a business, but the reality is that we rely on our jobs to give us basic services that are funded publicly in other countries."
In all European countries people are responsible for paying for food, and they pay a lot more for food than Americans do thanks to EU protectionism. Apart from a few parts of Europe like Vienna, public housing is the preserve of the low-income, not too different from America's Section 8 housing program. A computer programmer would not qualify for subsidized housing. Most housing is purchased in the big bad free market. Europe does have a universal healthcare system, but other than that the vision of Europe held by left-wing Americans is a utopian fantasy.
The past year and a half has revealed that a lot of programmers have the same "sense of entitlement" as laid-off Ohio steelworkers or West Virginia Coal miners.
I'm not saying you shouldn't complain about your employer. But the notion that companies are ethically obligated to hold onto workers who aren't necessary, I thought we were way passed that.
Most abusive households are not going to homeschool because they're people who couldn't care less about their kids' education and wouldn't turn away the chance for free daycare.
A lot of people seem to be implying that religious indoctrination is abuse, when it isn't legally, even if you think it should be. I'm personally in between a rock and a hard place here, since I don't want my kids exposed to either religion or LGBT stuff.
"Notice he isn't complaining about straight hook-up apps."
Homosexuality is just really disgusting to a lot of people who don't want their children exposed to it. If you also have to remove books about Tinder so gays don't feel singled out, you can do that too.
What people consider to be necessary to show "respect" for someone is seen differently by different people. There are a lot of people out there with a sense of entitlement, to money, to jobs, to popularity, and will scream at their "oppression" if it isn't given to them. Take egalitarianism to an extreme and they have a point, if I give a job to person X rather than person Y, am I not saying that person Y is on some level "less than" person X?
"observable, object-level matters of Presidential performance like competence or policy, Trump is motherfucking godawful by almost everyone's standards"
Your mistake is to assume that almost everyone wants the Camp of Saints and the Bernie free stuff agenda. As someone who will end up paying for that agenda, I'm less enthused.
In all European countries people are responsible for paying for food, and they pay a lot more for food than Americans do thanks to EU protectionism. Apart from a few parts of Europe like Vienna, public housing is the preserve of the low-income, not too different from America's Section 8 housing program. A computer programmer would not qualify for subsidized housing. Most housing is purchased in the big bad free market. Europe does have a universal healthcare system, but other than that the vision of Europe held by left-wing Americans is a utopian fantasy.