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If this trend of trying to optimize away away any profit in blue collar jobs until people can barely sustain themselves continues for much longer, we will have
by pdkl95 11y ago
If this trend of trying to optimize away away any profit in blue collar jobs until people can barely sustain themselves continues for much longer, we will have a much bigger problem to worry about than the minutia of employment. Once employment starts to dance at the low-wage edge and some people start to lose the ability to eat, open revolt and/or revolution happens.
A popular misconception is this is unlikely in America, because nobody is suffering that badly. The people that believe this obviously haven't worked in the fast-food or similar low-pay industries recently[1].
[1] https://medium.com/@sarahkendzior/the-minimum-wage-worker-strikes-back-fa4c36eb306b https://medium.com/@sarahkendzior/the-minimum-wage-worker-st...