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I think if everyone had enough to live most people would still work, but they would be a lot less willing to put up with things like bad bosses, crappy hours, b
by michaelbrave 6y ago
I think if everyone had enough to live most people would still work, but they would be a lot less willing to put up with things like bad bosses, crappy hours, being understaffed and all the other things we generally dislike about our jobs. Employers would have to rise to the occasion if the need for the job was lessened.
- Loughla 6y agoWhat kills me is the argument against a basic standard of living tends to come down to 'but who will be the plumbers, janitors, or fast food workers and retail?' Well, I, for one, would be a janitor and be perfectly happy for the rest of my life - low stress, low pressure. Seems nice. Fast food workers and retail would be more difficult, just because people would have to treat them like humans, if they didn't need the money from the job to survive. But that's never talked about. Sometimes those shitty jobs are only shitty because the people you have to interact with make them that way. In a prior career, I worked full-time retail management. I actually really liked that job, except for all of the shitty people who asserted their authority over me because I needed the job, and they didn't need to see me as a human due to my job.