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and no one irl even has the decency to agree with me because it's so fucking drilled into the culture that these fucking BuNsInNesSes have a Right to do this because it's a bSUsniEss. like oh yeah they have an office building so they definitely get to analyze my piss because they say they want to. sick fucking freaks.

preaching to the choir a bit on lemmy (or i would hope so at least) but still

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This was more common back in the days, but the issue is that it will result in societal inefficiencies like alcoholics not getting better. Best is nipping it before it gets a lot worse.

This is why in other countries there are a lot of responsibilities as an employer and they need to help with either private or public healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to guess that the "other countries" you mentioned also have functional and affordable health care systems?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, my point was that it can be good for society to burden eachother too. Especially where we're supposed to earn our daily living, look out for people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Give me a functional healthcare system and I'm down with assigning companies more responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In Sweden the responsibility comes first, the company are liable for the employee if they don't take action and know about the substance abuse (for example). And I think the US at least had some laws prohibiting like that, but maybe I'm thinking of wrongful termination