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> do we expect more from low-wage employees now than we did then? Given an example of warehouse workers, and how companies are enacting more and more automated

• hinkley 6y ago
  I had to pay my way through college, like a few of my friends, but I was struggling to juggle the two and trying to grow up at the same time. The on-campus tech job paid about 10% more, day 1, than any of my friends were making. So I used the higher pay and all the tricks my roommates taught be for frugal living and cut back my hours about 25%. I tried not to brag about it. I even felt a little guilty about how hard they were busting their asses, while I had a job where I could automate the tedious bits myself, and once I was not low man on the totempole I could delegate other parts. PSA: Be nice to your food service staff. And your janitors. Instead of thanking god it's them instead of you, be grateful someone else took that shit job so you don't have to cook and clean up after yourself.