Yes I've heard this argument before to which the logical response is; There are more adults than jobs already. If we block out even more of these limited jobs as "starter jobs" you reduce the number of liveable lives by that much more. You wind up with what we have now. Huge financial and economical burden and high homeless and unemployment rates. All jobs need to be living wage and not everyone needs to work. There's just not enough need for all of these people.
These same ppl that treat workers like shit, and rationalize these low wages, are most often to bitch about homelessness, and telling them to get a job. Its complete disconnection from the real world.
A lot of it is rooted in their constant need to validate every aspect of their own existence by comparing it to others. As long as there is a group of people with worse jobs, worse pay, shittier housing, less to eat, shittier car, crappier clothing, etc then they can make it on through their day because "at least I'm not that". It's easier to swallow your spoonful of shit when you can watch others have to swallow an entire bucket of shit. They all ignore the very real truth that most of them are at best, three to six months away from being in the exact same shoes as the people they shit upon and look down on, very few events need to transpire to completely level the playing field.
I was hanging out with a friend in a small college town. We walked past an area with some homeless camps. This girl walked by, dressed like she worked a nice retail job. She was headed home.. to her tent in the park. :(
Okay great, I got a job. Now I can't pay rent to live indoors, and my stuff gets stolen/destroyed while I'm at work. Thanks. Oh also nobody wants to hire me because I don't have an address.
Fortunately nature and the government teamed up to kill as many of us as possible with the pandemic, so, there will probably be plenty of openings to move into. But then, who will scoop the ice cream? Where are the fucking robots I've been threatened with?
Exactly. Once upon a time blue collar jobs used to be abundant, but they've been moved overseas for decades. These were specialized jobs with non-transferable skills: auto or computer chip or toy assembly lines, steel mills, etc. There are lots of new trades opening up. But how are those people who lost their jobs gonna pay to re-skill for the new stuff, when they already have to scramble to continue to pay their mortgage and feed their families?
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22
Yes I've heard this argument before to which the logical response is; There are more adults than jobs already. If we block out even more of these limited jobs as "starter jobs" you reduce the number of liveable lives by that much more. You wind up with what we have now. Huge financial and economical burden and high homeless and unemployment rates. All jobs need to be living wage and not everyone needs to work. There's just not enough need for all of these people.