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> Every great society was built on the backs of a disposable workforce ~ Bladerunner The question is what could those other people do instead? Are they happy
by Swizec 6y ago
> Every great society was built on the backs of a disposable workforce
~ Bladerunner
The question is what could those other people do instead? Are they happy with the pay?
$7/hour might seem chump change to you but as a high school kid getting $7 bucks to build websites at an agency I was fucking ecstatic. Nowadays I’d laugh at that rate and yet I still think it was the best thing I couldve done for my career at the time.
- duxup 6y agoI'm not sure "happy with the pay" is a good measure if the alternative is not working / serious problems. So yeah they'll take what they can get. I'm also not sure the cheap delivery guy is likely working themselves up to much more for each table they carry like you were with each website.
- Swizec 6y agoYeah so if you pay someone $7/h in a country with $5 minimum wage. Are you paying well or not for a menial job?
- nicbou 6y agoThis is because your parents were subsidizing that wage by covering your expenses
- Swizec 6y agoNo $7/h was a damn good hourly rate in my neck of the woods back then. Still is for people in menial jobs. Minimum wage is $5.2