Using robots to replace menial jobs, that’s exactly how you do /not/ create jobs, thus intensifying the competitive job market, one replaced person at a time
I just think that minimum wage should be enough to live off of. That's what it was intended to guarentee. It doesn't need to be high enough to drive a porsche, but enough to rent a small flat, put food on the table and buy the minimum necessities.
I agree, with the caveat that it's for that individual to live on, not to support a significant other or to raise a family with.
I don't like employers having to pay more that their employees' labor is worth at the best of times. I don't want them to bear the burden of raising other people's families, too.
Yeah, I really don't see why employers should have to shoulder that. I suppose that's what virtually everyone was spending their money for back then, though.
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No job is smaller.
A job of a guy who cleans sewer I'd as important as the job of a lawyer or any other profession requiring degrees.
Anyway. That's what I was taught, that no job and no person is smaller than your's and you. Treat everyone with equal respect.
I think some jobs may be more important though, if only due to the degree of danger and or bodily harm that may be caused while performing. Like cops, nurses, fireman, the guy I get coke from. You know jobs like that
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With ALL the different jobs I've had, from the one considered downgrading to the "better" one,I can say that any job takes a shit ton of courage and willing to do it. There's none without difficulties. And just going through the day should be enough to take pride in doing it.
The best thing I heard on this topic was from a retired air force colonel.
People would tell him how important his job was and how much it mattered, and he would always think (but not say out loud, he wasn't a jerk) "yeah, but if I skip work for a day, nobody will notice. If the garbage man skips work for a day, everybody complains"
No one has said any of this. You've just made up an argument out of thin air. This isn't even based on enough to call it a straw man argument. It's just invented nonsense.
Have you ever worked in customer service? People like that are a common occurrence. 16 year olds get harassed because some bitch thinks her 3 month expired coupons should work.
Slightly ironic given the post, but it bothers me when people with accounts pick on guests as if they're less than you. I've been minding my business scrolling through this site for half a year before making an account and i've noticed that people look down on guests which really frustrates me. Not saying you were directly picking on them, but with the context in which you used the word guest and the rest of the sentence it seemed very downgrading.
Well in this case it seems more like they're a guest, they don't have a username, there's nothing else to really call them by. And most people pick on guests when they're being assholes, cause there's quite a few of them.
There's nothing wrong with referring to them as guest but it was the honey and sweetie combined with it that made it seem rude. Point is, jojo could have gotten the point across without the first 3 words of that sentence which only created a downgrading effect. The way to educate somebody isn't to treat them as less than you for not knowing what you know. Just simply tell the guest how it is without being rude about it and maybe they'll understand and listen. As soon as somebody thinks you're talking to them like they're inferior they're much less likely to listen to you.
I don't like employers having to pay more that their employees' labor is worth at the best of times. I don't want them to bear the burden of raising other people's families, too.
A job of a guy who cleans sewer I'd as important as the job of a lawyer or any other profession requiring degrees.
Anyway. That's what I was taught, that no job and no person is smaller than your's and you. Treat everyone with equal respect.
People would tell him how important his job was and how much it mattered, and he would always think (but not say out loud, he wasn't a jerk) "yeah, but if I skip work for a day, nobody will notice. If the garbage man skips work for a day, everybody complains"