General Strike Against 13-Hour Work Day Brings Greece to a Halt

I'll take your word for it, barely so, for argument's sake.

> all real work is done by 'losers' who have nothing of that but their working hours are unregulated anyway and they work illegally for cash

Oh, so they do work, you contradict yourself here. About "unregulated anyway", you do not express yourself clearly but it seems you're mislabeling work that is outside of regulations as "unregulated", the latter means lack of regulation and it's not the same as "illegal".

Well, that kind of work is up to negotiation between employer and employee, they are on equal footing and the employee can say "No" without any repercussions, actually, in that case, the employers risk more and they will have to be more accommodating than the employees. Ergo, long hours won't happen if the employee says "No".

> These people need a goddamn reality check.

Another out-of-the-blue statement that doesn't follow from your prior story. Actually, the regulations and the government there need a reality check and the people are providing it to them by striking. It's the opposite of what you're trying to insinuate.

Modern slavery is a massive problem. There are more slaves today than there were at the peak of slavery in the United States.

It is a strange side effect of US-exceptionalism that projects a shameful-pride that US slavery was the biggest and the worst slavery and they are the heroes for ending slavery, when none of these are remotely true.

Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, Hindus in Pakistan, Christians in Pakistan, Dalits in India, tribal communities in India, migrant workers from Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh in Malaysia, Indigenous Brazilians, Afro-Brazilians, undocumented migrants in United States, South Asians in Middle East, Africans in Middle East (kafala system).