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It is obvious to me that pushing a broom has not gotten more complex over the last hundred years. It is significantly less obvious that being a CEO has not got
by anoonmoose 6y ago
It is obvious to me that pushing a broom has not gotten more complex over the last hundred years. It is significantly less obvious that being a CEO has not gotten more complex over the last hundred years.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoI'd say that "pushing a broom" is a straw-man of a job that doesn't actually exist anymore, if it ever did.
- sneak 6y agoThere are many millions of busses to drive, bags to load, passengers to drive around, trash bins to empty, and floors to be swept, vacuumed, and mopped. I think perhaps you underestimate the massive size of the unskilled job market.
- TT3351 6y ago0 of those jobs consist of solely "pushing a broom," which as a phrase dehumanizes and strips "unskilled" workers of their dignity.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoBusses are definitely a specific skill requiring specific certification. I don't know if dedicated bag loaders exist these days but everyone has other job requirements. While yes, the market for low skill jobs is large, I think you're still diminishing these roles.
- mason240 6y agoBus drivers are not making MW anywhere.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoAnd they require skills. Which puts them firmly out of the mindless, worthless, broom pushing category that was being constructed here.
- slumpt_ 6y agoI see a lot of this on HN and it’s disappointing. Place can be a bit too steeped in privilege and survivorship bias at times.
- yifanl 6y agoTell your CEO to do janitorial work for a day and ask them how qualified they felt to do unskilled work.
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