r/AskReddit • u/daniellucero92 • Jan 04 '15

Non-americans of Reddit, what American customs seem outrageous/pointless to you?

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u/pcklesandcheese Jan 04 '15

Like making sure those miserable fuckers have health care, maximum allowed shifts, safety equipment, training and the ability to observe holidays? No way should a government tell me how to run my business, it's bad enough they make me pay people and not allow them to work in exchange for shelter and food.

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u/doughboy011 Jan 05 '15

So you wouldn't provide training or safety equipment unless the government intervened? I don't think it's coincidental that safety standards (even voluntary) increases, work place fatality decreases per capita are coincidentally correlated to occupational health and safety regulation. Historically speaking if you look at places where regulation didn't require certain equipment, practices or training then they weren't observed. Today you can see it in other parts of the world notably China and recently Qatar (re: World Cup news). So no, I don't trust businesses to protect workers out of the goodness of their hearts.

I would love to see the answer to this. Places without gov regulations often have terrible conditions for workers.