cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro@feddit.online/p/1817064/germany-tightens-sick-leave-rules-medical-doctor-note-required-from-day-one-telephone-s
Germany’s Chancellor Merz:
We can no longer accept the extraordinarily high levels of sick leave in our companies.
We are abolishing sick leave by telephone and introducing the requirement to submit a medical certificate from the very first day of illness.
We know this is a tough decision. But we can no longer afford this competitive disadvantage caused by prolonged absences from work.
Social services is not an investment. It’s a public service. We do it because we have humanity and dignity, not because of money.
We do it because it buys us social peace. Less criminality means better life.
While I wholeheartedly agree, that will never be a selling point to a capitalist.
Both.
People with money brains can be sold on an investment. They won’t want to do anything that they won’t get a return on. People with empathy don’t need to be sold on helping people.
If only it actually worked. I get the impression that making poor people’s lives worse is actually the point, and the capitalists don’t really care that much about their absolute amount of money. Or they’re just neck-deep in counterfactual propaganda about how business and economics works. Hell, why not both?
For some, yes. But those are the sociopaths and those are relatively few. The rest are fed propaganda but can be convinced.