Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 26, 2024, 08:11 AMThe arrangement in America is bizarre.

It's the same arrangement as in Britain, France, Germany, Japan,Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Phullippines, South Korea, Mexico and most of Spain also.  The arrangement in the Basque region with this company is the anomaly.  It may be bizarre everywhere else, but it's the most common.

QuoteWithout money people in America are considered homeless pieces of trash.

Not exactly.  They aren't 'considered" pieces of trash, they ARE pieces of trash.  You must work inside the system and pay taxes and have a home to live in.  You're not allowed to be a Nomad who lives outside, it's illegal and considered vagrancy.  You can get away with it to an extent as a Trucker living in your Freightliner if you park at Truckstops and buy meals, gas and showers or are retired living in an RV and pay campsite fees and some Walmarts let you park overnight figuring you buy food there, but by and large in the lower 48 there are few places it's legal to camp for free.  We still have some in AK, and if you're away from the towns in the bush as long as you don't do any hunting you're OK, but otherwise having a fixed domicile is pretty much mandatory.  Obviously, you can't have one if you have no money.  Thus, it is effectively a criminal offense to be poor.

RE