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Even Stephen is impressed by the kind of #Monster, #DonaldTrump appeals to be sometimes. As an #Author , who is always interested in #complex #Characters, he surely has an #Interest, how #DonaldTrump is ticking. #Truth is often #stranger than #Fiction and he may ask himself, that it would be #mandatory, to have invented a Character like Trump, if he wasn't already #existing.

#stephenking

King Thinks Trump Knows He's An 'Incompetent A**hole' - Comic Sands
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Comic Sands · King Thinks Trump Knows He's An 'Incompetent A**hole'By Amelia Mavis Christnot
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@tinker I do point these things out to folks from the #USA as well as tools to calculate their actual net payout (i.e. nettolohn.de for #Germany) as well as the fact that most things here are #mandatory, not "#perks" like #AffordableHealthcare, #PTO / #PaidVacationLeave, #PaidSickLeave, #PensionFunds, etc. and that these are 100% #transferable across employers and not tied to a specific employment. (I.e. your remaining PTO does transfer!)

  • OFC employers may offer benefits on top of that like a company car they can use as an individual (tho they'd have to pay tax on that -> #NotTaxAdvice / #NotFinancialAdvice!), or subsidized #PublicTransport tickets or just terms that are better than the legally mandated minimums.

Granted, #CostOfLiving in the #USA have gone so absurdly high and #wages have stagnated so hard that >50% of the people there literally can't afford to survive there!

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@cdarwin I know that the #US embassy dared that shite in #Berlin and I'm not shure if @AuswaertigesAmt made it clear to them that "#DEI" isn't a #choice but #mandatory and that if they were a domestic business they'd be facing @antidiskriminierung 's wraith!

  • In the end they can try that shit but that'll get their utilities canceled and the building condemned because having no running drinking water, heating and power makes it unfit for housing and business and having no fire insurance is illegal and buildings without will be forcibly closed by the fire inspector until reinsured and reinspected.

  • Same for their cars: No insurance = Not allowed to drive on German roads!

This is a very blatant #clickbait and common #misconception:

Simple things like:

  • paid sick leave
  • paid vacation leave
  • paid parental (!!!) (not just maternal) leave
  • healthcare insurance
  • pension / retirement plan
    ...

  • In the #US, gross salaries are only higher because it's WAY MORE EXPENSIVE to get the same "perks", because #ForProfitHealthcare exists and noone gets paid vacay per law, so everyone has to cut that.

#Solidarity-based systems make things way cheaper, and people won't demand 6-digit salaries when they have to spend like 10% of their salary just to downpay a #car in a #CarCentric #suburban shithole but have excellent #PublicTransport at affordable rates right at their doorstep!