My college age relative shared this with the families.
Apparently there is such a thing called anti-work going on among young people. I find it less convincing to younger generation that going to a college is safe route to comfortable living later…but there is no alternative either
Any thought from parents here?
How about if you share what is contained in your link. I know I’m not the only one who doesn’t open links like this.
It’s a sub Reddit forum where some of the posters are advocating for not working for an employer and mostly favoring the gig economy. Some of their antics have included flooding the website of a company who laid off workers and want to rehire new workers. Like most things, there are good and not so good elements to it.
Gig economy as in getting paid under the table?
That sub frequently comes up for me on Reddit. Apparently every work problem can be attributed to Boomers. (As a Boomer, I feel offended!)
No. Gig economy as in freelancing and doing various jobs instead of a regular 9-5. So self employed or doing Uber, instacart etc will all be under gig economy.
I’ve been following the subreddit. Attributing problems to an age group, like Boomers, is against the rules of the subreddit.
The overall theme is fair pay for work that is done.
The particular post and thread describe how the US healthcare insurance system is insanely expensive and that people who get cancer can get wiped out. I happen to agree with them. DH had cancer and was in the hospital for months. I was traumatized a second time with the bills that were coming in. This was in the days before the ACA when lifetime caps were in place. Although DH was in healthcare and had the best insurance that his employer had, the bills got awfully close to the lifetime cap. I was terrified that he would outlive the cap. No one should have to go through that.
Well, that was an interesting read. I don’t know much about how Reddit works. What’s the anti work competent of the linked thread? I read the link, which was about insane healthcare costs.
The healthcare system in the US is deeply, terribly flawed, IMO, and we are all suffer as a result. I’m no expert, but it seems to me that the beneficiaries of the system as it is are insurers and pharmaceutical companies.
My kids were born overseas. We paid exactly $0.00 for them to be born. A visiting health care worker came to the house when they were a couple of days old to check on them, and on me. That also cost $0.00. All of their vaccinations and wellness checks cost $0.00. The benefits to that aspect of my family’s health care are obvious.
Yes, of course we paid a lot of tax, but not much more than we pay living in the US. As self-employed people, our insurance and health care costs annually run to many thousands of dollars. We wanted to join one of those cooperative groups to lower the costs, but if you have ANY health issue at all, even a minor issue that is well-managed and non-life threatening, you are excluded. In other words, only people with zero health conditions whatsoever are eligible.
My child is employed full time and decided to stay on our family health plan rather than take her employer’s insurance plan (a large company with 1000’s of employees) because her monthly cost just for the premium was $500. That’s for a healthy, young 20-something. It was a huge chunk of her take home pay. I don’t know how people with lower incomes afford health insurance.
I don’t disagree with their sentiment, but their actions appear limited in scope. For example, environmental toxins and dietary / lifestyle choices are big contributors to healthcare needs and costs. In an ideally planned society, healthcare costs for most people would be driven so low by focusing on the root causes that there would be plenty of money for catastrophic care. It seems a more holistic approach is needed to accomplish what they want to accomplish.
Don’t feed the troIIs.
