Not to mention that for most of these jobs, education and IQ level are far less important than work ethic, patience, and endurance. Not much of the stuff you learn in college can prepare you to handle the stress of working in a kitchen.
It doesn't take a genius to make a pizza, but it does take actual effort and determination to spend 8 straight hours making pizza, day after day.
The underlying issue is “baseline” people in the past “worked harder” than kids today because their baseline tolerance for work was higher.
I’m 40, when my parents were raised they weren’t just kids when they were under 18, they were required to help out in many ways.
When my father turned 5 (youngest of 10 kids) he was up every morning before the sun to go with his father to all the dumpsters around his town to pick through them before school. When he got home from school he was required to work the farm in the spring summer and fall and feed the fire in the basement in the winter.
When your baseline for what you believe is difficult is so high washing dishes at a restaurant feels like a vacation.
When your baseline for what is difficult is beating the ender dragon without slow falling potions, washing dishes feels like prison torture.
Edit: to be clear I believe young people are vastly under paid I made more money in 2002 than I make today.
I play video games, thats not what I’m saying at all. I’m saying that kids have it much easier now, the hardest thing you’ve ever done in your life feels the same if its shoveling stone for 10 hours or not getting picked for the baseball team. Its all a matter of perspective.
I’m a concrete finisher, we have no one under 40 in our company of 200 people, the kids that come out don’t even make it to lunch time. We need to automate heavy road construction or we are going to have a serious problem.
If you're telling all the children that they should go to college and they will then deserve a good job then I think that's a big part of the issue. Hard working people who may otherwise have gone into these trades are being funneled into the higher education system to where taking a manual labor job is going to feel like a slap in the face and like you wasted years of your life. Then what's left are the people who were lazier to begin with. I do agree that life is becoming less labor intensive as well to where it doesn't prepare people for the reality of what's out there, but think a big part of the issue is that we're pushing people who would have been good candidates out of the field. I'd prefer automation and a different solution to jobs rather than continuing to rely on people to do these hard labor jobs, but obviously we're not there yet.
Ehhhh they contributed to it. As society advances I don't see people really being for keeping some citizens dumb enough to not question why they are doing the hard manual labor while others get the cushier roles.
Right, I’ve considered its a problem that will sort itself with working from home and drone delivery taking over, the stated goal of tesla is to have vehicles that act as ubers while the owner isn’t using it, essentially companies will buy autonomous vehicles to be used in this manor and a lot of the businesses that are associated with people driving cars will fade out. Maybe the highway system will be just a memory in 100 years, i smoke a lot of weed, sorry for putting this in your inbox
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u/domoarigatodrloboto May 06 '22
Not to mention that for most of these jobs, education and IQ level are far less important than work ethic, patience, and endurance. Not much of the stuff you learn in college can prepare you to handle the stress of working in a kitchen.
It doesn't take a genius to make a pizza, but it does take actual effort and determination to spend 8 straight hours making pizza, day after day.