Here's a good thread on this ruling: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1677663797341745154.html
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"Even limiting a duty of care to employees' household members, the pool of potential plaintiffs would be enormous, numbering not thousands but millions of Californians," Justice Carol Corrigan wrote for the court.
Because most businesses responses were laughable at best and threw millions of people into the meat grinder?
It's super cool that "You fucked over way too many people to be held accountable" is something a judge can just say, in public, and not immediately be dragged in to the street.
My anxiety was starting to get under control before COVID hit, then I had to wear an uncomfortable mask in a loud noisy environment and hover on the edge of a panic attack for 8 hours a day for about a year and a half, and it's taken me another year and a half to get this shit under control again.
Lost all faith in the people of this country after seeing the same people come in literally every day and get their extremely pedantic fish order. The words "thank you" lost all meaning for me. They gave us a couple bucks' hazard pay for like 3 months and then quietly stopped giving it to us, and meanwhile they were making record profits and boosting the company's value to attract investors to buy it out. At the same time I watched the last standard political option for a better future get cut down at the knees to force through a shambling corpse puppeteered by the hands of capital itself and crush any hope for tomorrow.
But god forbid the businesses be held accountable for anything at all.
Y'know in a country that experiences 3 mass shootings a day it's a bold choice to make it so the only way to obtain some semblance of "justice" is through adventurism.
is betting on an alienated, isolated, demoralized, scattered, and indoctrinated population that is too focused on petty individualism and chasing tiny reliefs from systemic suffering to do anything that actually threatens them.It's a fairly safe bet.
