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eastern europe is nearly devoid of any labour laws
If only that was true. Life here would be great.

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kinda proves my point about the 20-something harvard mbas.

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We're fine, thank you.

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ok, so i'm exaggerating. besides that, i can't tell for sure about czech republic, but for the countries i do know (and i have a feeling czech republic won't be that different) the following are true:

- minimum wages are laughable; sometimes they do not even amount to a montly rent
- unions are dismantled or largely ineffective
- labour/social democratic and even socialist parties are run by people openly endorsing corporate interests
- some old factories have turned into export-oriented sweatshops
- taxation is not progressive, and there is no itention to make it progressive
- employers may hire, fire and make employees work unpaid overtime whenever they want to

shall i go on?

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gah is EVERYTHING america's fault????

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i blame it solely on the 20-something harvard mbas (well ok, by now they're 30-something) - a very small part of america's population.