No it doesn't. It works better for 1% of the population. Everyone else is a health crisis away from bankruptcy.
Literally. That's all it takes in the US for everyone who doesn't have an eight-figure-or-more net worth to be staring ruin in the face.
Your comment is exactly the mythology that perpetuates the problem. Exploitation is sold as participation. "Well we're paid fairly well so I guess we must be privileged and upper class."
If you can't stop working tomorrow without ever having to worry about money again - including health crises - you are not privileged or upper class.
Literally. That's all it takes in the US for everyone who doesn't have an eight-figure-or-more net worth to be staring ruin in the face.
Your comment is exactly the mythology that perpetuates the problem. Exploitation is sold as participation. "Well we're paid fairly well so I guess we must be privileged and upper class."
If you can't stop working tomorrow without ever having to worry about money again - including health crises - you are not privileged or upper class.
Please stop telling yourself you are.