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[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 79 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is how serious countrys operate.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 29 points 3 days ago

They needed the wall built first to cut themselves off from the riffraff

[–] LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world 147 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Soon Mexico will have to build a wall to keep Americans out.

[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think we already built it and paid for it.

[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You lot got uno reversed hard on that one.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I do miss the simpler times when the wall of stupid was our biggest political battleground. Now we have genocide support, a smorgasbord of other war crimes across the globe, open pedophilia and rape by our president, Dems are nearly as bad as openly fascist repubs, all of our industrialists have gone crazy, no one can afford much of anything, health care is unattainable, bad, and run by a brain wormed guy-- and our education system is being dissolved in acid. And the list just goes on and on. Its exhausting.

[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sometimes I look back at videos of previous presidents, and just looking at like a sense of basic humanity and litteracy I get really homesick to times that have long since passed. And I don't even live on that continent. Can't imagine what it's like to actually be in that cesspool.

Not that we don't have our own problems with funky haired right wing nationalists here in Europe, mind.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

A bit late that,

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 179 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No wonder the CIA is fucking with them.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The billionaires are freaking out

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago

Mi español es muy limitado, but I'm ready to go.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just look at the awful things a woman president will do.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Let's pretend the Queen of England didn't just finally fuck off or all the other female authoritarians/war criminals, let's remove her agency and attribute any good she does to being a woman.

It's more sexist than the implication itself.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Margaret Thatcher was UK's Reagan. Everything she didn't ruin herself; she readied to be ruined later.

It wasn't because she was a woman. It was because she was a freaking neoliberal.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's also just really fucking annoying that this platitude comes up every time a headline is posted about a woman doing good, as if people are just incapable of thinking it through.

Neither Clinton nor Harris would have supported this, and in fact, they'd have told their rotating villains to oppose it and claimed powerlessness, as Dems always do. (Which is, in part, why they lost their elections.)

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[–] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago

I had to execute a contract with a supplier in Mexico recently and they have a law (REPSE) that means you cannot engage a sub contractor when instead there's a reasonable argument that you could employ them instead.

It's to protect an empire being manipulated and not receive benefits. They really do look out for their employee rights which is great to see

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 85 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

Mexico is amending it's constitution and the US can't even pass a budget to keep it's fucking bridges from collapsing. Meanwhile USA calls Mexico a failed state lol.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 20 points 3 days ago

Name checks out.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can't wait for American illegal immigrants to get deported from Mexico

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's already a problem in Mexico. American immigrants have been moving to the nice parts of Mexico, and they have been inflating the ever living fuck out of the prices there. American money is unmatched, and no Mexican business is going to dumb enough to let it slip by. They've been increasing prices and catering to Americans to the point where Mexicans are being squeezed out entirely from the equation.

There are parts of Mexico city where Mexicans are completely priced out. People with houses in the nice parts try to sell them to Americans to get more money. Developers are building condo buildings that cater to American styles, and they're entirely branded and marketed in English. Businesses in the area notice the increase in Americans walking around and jack up their prices to get a share of the pie themselves, which leads Americans to get another part of the city that's still cheap to get the most out of their money repeating the cycle. Americans have already been doing this to countries like Spain, Portugal, and Italy, but now they're doing it to Mexico too.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Damn, here I thought I was making a bad joke, but reality seems to be a bad joke these days.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

That's the beauty of the Mexican project. They're going to accommodate the refugees in a way Americans refused to do. And they're going to become a better country for it

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 51 points 3 days ago

Hopefully, Mexico will actually achieve the American Dream, rather than being dragged into a nightmare by their capitalists.

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

can we get her to be the PM of more countries pls

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 91 points 4 days ago (8 children)

She needs to reform the US, next.

Honestly, companies have legitimately taken advantage of productivity gains from technology over the last 30+years. We get more done individually now than we ever have before, so companies save millions on effectively having less staff, that're also paid less due to sharp rises of inflation & CoL.

We should be down to 24 hours a week IMO, because I myself piss away about half my week anyway trying to come up with shit to do! I know others are in similar boats.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I own a company, self employed and I set up my business to only need to do 20 billable hours a week. That covers my wage and insurance costs for myself. Obviously at that I'm not making profit as a business but as an employee I am making a good living

It really opened my eyes to how much businesses fuck their employees and how much value i created for the 13 years i worked for others.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think we should have a law that employees at a company have a right to a share of % of the profits.

Would help incentives workers, too. You're gonna work harder if you know your efforts actually pay off.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

even better: the workers should own the company. including its profits as well as its decisions.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 102 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This answers the question I had, about what happens if a worker does in fact work longer than that.

Employees can work overtime during the workweek, but no more than 12 hours total, with a maximum of four hours on any given day and no more than four overtime days per week.

I wonder what the rules are around having a second job?

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (4 children)

In most countries a second job is just not really allowed without your primary employer's approval. Which they are very unlikely to give. It's more a US thing for people who have problems making ends meet.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I thought I read theyre cutting work hours from 48 to 40. Not good enough imo. Thats what were at and still burned out.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't let perfect be enemy of the good.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago

Agreed. Shes done a hell of a lot more for her constituents than our politicians.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Maximum working hours* which is not the same.

Americans sign up for jobs at 40 and if they're salaried they almost all work at least 45, and are then expected to be contacted out of work.

[–] AHamSandwich@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Word. I had a job that promised no more than 40 and my manager offered unofficial comp time for any overage. Then the economy slowed and they wanted to downsize, so fired me for working less than 40 hours one week a few months before.

[–] canniest_tod@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Be honest, that's not where millions of Americans are. 3 jobs, no overtime, ludicrous living costs is where many Americans are.

[–] waratchess@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

It's worse than that. They're reducing 2 hours per year until they reach 40, but they're keeping six work days per week.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 3 days ago

Holy shit. Claudia my queen

[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 65 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Anybody upset about this needs to be upset with their employer. If you need to work over 12 hours a day everyday you're being severely underpaid. Saying this as a guy that used to do it to survive. My boss would praise me and tell people everyone needed to be more like me while knowing damn well why I was doing what I was doing. Tried to be the empathetic hand while completely exploiting me.

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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. [...] create the conditions under which a four-day working week becomes practically achievable for the first time for a significant portion of the Mexican workforce."

Mexico is one of the few countries with only a 1-day weekend, along with:

  • Colombia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, and India (Sundays);
  • Djibouti (only 40h/w tho), Palestine, Iran, and Somalia (Fridays); and
  • Nepal (only 42h/w tho) (Saturdays).
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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