Guessing this might be non-essential workers as per covid lockdowns, ie how important it is for them to attend a workplace in person, but it's definitely funnier if it is a ranked list of perceived importance to society, so let's go with that
Australia seems to be doing its best to ditch it. Medicare levy plus a surcharge above a certain wage, but that surcharge goes away if you have private health cover. Health insurance companies have zero incentive to set premiums below what that surcharge would have been, particularly when, if you take up private health after you turn 31, then there's a govt loading on it. Gap charges (ie the cost over and above that covered by Medicare) grow every year, bulk billing is disappearing, the public hospital system is constantly being underfunded, etc.
Just privatise healthcare, what's the worst that could happen?
/ looks at US healthcare, and how well privatising just about everything else has gone for us so far
Aussie here, to me xmas = summer time. Xmas movies always felt irrelevant, and the idea of Santa wearing all his gear is mental when it's often 40C+ and humid af.
Being cold would feel alien that time of year, even more so if it snowed because that doesn't happen in 99% of the country regardless of the time of year.
I suspect we're not taking about actual storytelling here as much as anecdotes that signal whether you will or will not agree with the rest of what's about to be said, but to answer the question as asked, imho good storytelling depends as much on the listener as the teller.
Some find joy to be infectious, they'll enjoy a story because the teller's eyes light up, and watching someone loving the shit out of something is itself a joyful experience.
Some will only enjoy a story if it's of direct positive relevance to them, regardless of who's telling it.
She makes some good points, but only focuses on Google's monopoly being an issue. It is, but there's no mention of privacy concerns, the oversaturation of ads, space being created for ads by deliberately worsening the UX, etc. The industry itself is a shitshow.
The issue isn't so much that Google has a monopoly on the enormously invasive data that's collected. The issue is that it is being collected.
Saw someone making a sandwich once in stop-start traffic, cutting board resting against the (airbag) steering wheel and using a knife. Didn't hear about them on the news that evening so can only assume Darwin missed it.
Or a meating in their case