American work culture scares the shite out of me. We have a type of work called 'casual' work, distinct from permanent part time and full time contracts. 'Casual' work applies a 25% loading on your pay, but in exchange, you can be let go for any reason, without notice, and do not have a guaranteed amount of hours/shifts. It's intended to be offered to teenagers getting their first fast food job or whatever, but it's abused by employers and we have a real problem with too many people working casual.
Anyway, imagine my actual horror when I discovered this 'casual' scheme is just about the standard framework for working in the states - and they don't even get casual loading!
yeah it's crazy how the pandemic put a smart device in front of every school aged child, we overhauled our infrastructure radically within a few years to support this. we demonstrated the technology age we're living in and how adaptable it is
but couple years later and we're trying to ban them from schools because of the addictive design we imposed upon them via usual capitalistic interests
shit like that makes me so depressed - we're living in the future. humans of the past could not comprehend what we live with. and we've designed it in such a fundamentally anti-human way that it's more of a danger to our health, physical and mental, than anything else