• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      But if I join a union, then I might have to pay union dues!!! Getting a 20% raise isn’t worth losing 2% to dues!!!

      • qaz@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Have you considered how many video games you can buy using all that money you saved on union dues?

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        8 months ago

        Now you see why the right wing tries to neuter schools and education.

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        8 months ago

        On a similar note, paying 10% of my total income to health insurance is absolutely worth it, because they partially pay for 3 doctors visits per year and tell me to go fuck myself when I need antidepressants or Advil.

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          8 months ago

          The typical high deductible health plans these days only seem to work well for people that need like no healthcare, or people who need a ton of it.

          My secret trick is to have an incurable condition where the medications to hopefully stabilize you or slow progress of the disease are so hilariously expensive that the pharma company will pay all of my out of pocket costs. It’s like my employer pays me my salary, then my insurance company pays an entire separate yearly salary to the pharma company.